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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
==========================================
-README for release 8d of 15-Jan-2012
-====================================
+README for release 9 of 13-Jan-2013
+===================================
-This distribution contains the eighth public release of the Independent JPEG
+This distribution contains the ninth public release of the Independent JPEG
Group's free JPEG software. You are welcome to redistribute this software and
to use it for any purpose, subject to the conditions under LEGAL ISSUES, below.
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or
fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you,
its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy.
-This software is copyright (C) 1991-2012, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
+This software is copyright (C) 1991-2013, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
All Rights Reserved except as specified below.
Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
@@ -146,15 +146,6 @@ commercial products, provided that all warranty or liability claims are
assumed by the product vendor.
-ansi2knr.c is included in this distribution by permission of L. Peter Deutsch,
-sole proprietor of its copyright holder, Aladdin Enterprises of Menlo Park, CA.
-ansi2knr.c is NOT covered by the above copyright and conditions, but instead
-by the usual distribution terms of the Free Software Foundation; principally,
-that you must include source code if you redistribute it. (See the file
-ansi2knr.c for full details.) However, since ansi2knr.c is not needed as part
-of any program generated from the IJG code, this does not limit you more than
-the foregoing paragraphs do.
-
The Unix configuration script "configure" was produced with GNU Autoconf.
It is copyright by the Free Software Foundation but is freely distributable.
The same holds for its supporting scripts (config.guess, config.sub,
@@ -222,12 +213,16 @@ Part 1: Requirements and guidelines" and has document numbers ISO/IEC IS
10918-1, ITU-T T.81. Part 2 is titled "Digital Compression and Coding of
Continuous-tone Still Images, Part 2: Compliance testing" and has document
numbers ISO/IEC IS 10918-2, ITU-T T.83.
-IJG JPEG 8 introduces an implementation of the JPEG SmartScale extension
+IJG JPEG 8 introduced an implementation of the JPEG SmartScale extension
which is specified in two documents: A contributed document at ITU and ISO
with title "ITU-T JPEG-Plus Proposal for Extending ITU-T T.81 for Advanced
Image Coding", April 2006, Geneva, Switzerland. The latest version of this
document is Revision 3. And a contributed document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 N
5799 with title "Evolution of JPEG", June/July 2011, Berlin, Germany.
+IJG JPEG 9 introduces a reversible color transform for improved lossless
+compression which is described in a contributed document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/
+WG1 N 6080 with title "JPEG 9 Lossless Coding", June/July 2012, Paris,
+France.
The JPEG standard does not specify all details of an interchangeable file
format. For the omitted details we follow the "JFIF" conventions, revision
@@ -257,8 +252,8 @@ ARCHIVE LOCATIONS
The "official" archive site for this software is www.ijg.org.
The most recent released version can always be found there in
directory "files". This particular version will be archived as
-http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz, and in Windows-compatible
-"zip" archive format as http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr8d.zip.
+http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9.tar.gz, and in Windows-compatible
+"zip" archive format as http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr9.zip.
The JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article is a source of some
general information about JPEG.
@@ -331,20 +326,24 @@ Furthermore, the ISO committee pretends to be "responsible for the popular
JPEG" in their public reports which is not true because they don't respond to
actual requirements for the maintenance of the original JPEG specification.
-There are currently distributions in circulation containing the name
-"libjpeg" which claim to be a "derivative" or "fork" of the original
-libjpeg, but don't have the features and are incompatible with formats
-supported by actual IJG libjpeg distributions. Furthermore, they
-violate the license conditions as described under LEGAL ISSUES above.
-We have no sympathy for the release of misleading and illegal
-distributions derived from obsolete code bases.
+There are currently different distributions in circulation containing the
+name "libjpeg" which is misleading because they don't have the features and
+are incompatible with formats supported by actual IJG libjpeg distributions.
+One of those fakes is released by members of the ISO committee and just uses
+the name of libjpeg for misdirection of people, similar to the abuse of the
+name JPEG as described above, while having nothing in common with actual IJG
+libjpeg distributions.
+The other one claims to be a "derivative" or "fork" of the original libjpeg
+and violates the license conditions as described under LEGAL ISSUES above.
+We have no sympathy for the release of misleading and illegal distributions
+derived from obsolete code bases.
Don't use an obsolete code base!
TO DO
=====
-Version 8 is the first release of a new generation JPEG standard
+Version 9 is the second release of a new generation JPEG standard
to overcome the limitations of the original JPEG specification.
More features are being prepared for coming releases...