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		legulere on Nov 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BPG Image Format Specification It's not totally free. It's bound to the GPLv3 and thus has no chance of being included into any standard browser.

ZeroGravitas on Nov 21, 2015 [–]

Thats the code's licence, not the file format's, so they'd only need to write a decoder (or ask that the decoder be re-licensed).

legulere on Nov 21, 2015 | [–]

There's no specification, so you would have to do a clean room reimplementation.

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