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by shmerl 4226 days ago
It's not fully patent free:

> It has always been a strong goal of the JPEG committee that its standards should be implementable in their baseline form without payment of royalty and license fees...

It's only for baseline.

> is no different to Ogg or VP8 in that regard

They are patent free, no strings attached, unlike JPEG2000.