Hello. imagemagick is supported DDS (DirectDraw Surface). DDS used S3TC compression. S3TC is patened. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2010-March/005439.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/12/msg00062.html http://www.google.com/patents?vid=5956431 And imagemagick supported MPEG. (WMV, M2V, M4V, etc. used mpeg2encode) MPEG is patented. S3TC and MPEG is "Forbidden items". https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems Suggests: 1. Remove DDS and MPEG module. 2. Replace Patent-free module (e.g: S2TC, Im not tested) 3. Replace imagemagick to graphicmagick (Im not tested) 4. Remove Fedora repos. Thanks. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw_Surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823096
Blocking FE-Legal, This is patent problem.
I found typo. (in Description) incorrent: DDS used S3TC compression. S3TC is patened. corrent: DDS used S3TC compression. S3TC is patented. Sorry.
Additional Reference URI: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/
After review by Red Hat Legal, we determined that because ImageMagick is covered by OIN, we are not aware of any patent issues involving this package. Closing as NOTABUG.