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README.ijg: Clarification regarding JPEG 2000/XR
The sentence: "Indeed, one of the original reasons for developing this free software was to help force convergence on common, interoperable format standards for JPEG files." might be seen to imply that JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR are not interoperable with themselves, although it is certainly the case that those formats are not interoperable with each other, nor with ITU T.81 | ISO/IEC 10918. They are also certainly not as common as ITU T.81 | ISO/IEC 10918, and (as an example) popular web browsers will not display JPEG 2000 files. The sentence in question was originally referring to proprietary, non-standard formats and was meant to provide historical context. libjpeg was originally released prior to the adoption of JFIF as an official standard, so it encouraged adoption of JFIF as a de facto standard by providing, under a business-friendly free software license, a library for reading and writing images in that format.
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