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		jonsneyers on Oct 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Free Lossless Image Format Publications I'm open to negotiation if Adobe would want to include the FLIF encoder in Photoshop. The other contributors have signed a CLA that allows me to change the licensing to anything more permissive than GPLv3. So if Adobe wants it, they can pay for a non-copyleft license (e.g. Apache 2.0). If that ever happens, I'll be happy to share the licensing fees with the other contributors and donate some of it to the FSF.

h1d on Oct 5, 2016 | [–]

Why would they want to pay? Unless the format is widely spread and the fee is much cheaper than implementing their own what interest do they have to pay? I feel it's the opposite now.

jonsneyers on Oct 4, 2016 | [–]

Also, Adobe Photoshop (or any other program) is of course free to dynamically link to the libflif library. The LGPL allows that.

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