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Note that BPG is based on HEVC still frames, and may be more patent-emcubered than current alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Portable_Graphics#Paten...

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Patents were my first thought when reading the OP. Any media format discussion without IP is fairly meaningless.

"Why BPG won't replace GIFs and not only"

Why not another BPG-like based on VP9, then?

That's basically what WebP is.

As far as I know, WebP still uses VP8, not VP9.

Which is a shame, because it could have big a big leap over JPEG instead of a sidegrade if they had waited a bit.

I think one based on VP10 is a possibility, since the Alliance for Open Media now includes all major browser makers except Apple, and a bunch of big websites.

Currently the members seem to be working on converging VP10, Daala and Thor tech in the video realm but I'd guess images might be on their radar too.

Looks like FLIF can do animations as well. http://flif.info/animation.html

FLIF is encumbered by GPL which means it's not going to make it into any digital cameras.

The first official version of FLIF has not been released yet, and currently they are discussing releasing it under Apache 2 or MPL (Mozilla Public License).

Please Not MPL. Apache 2, so most company could understand, MPL they will have to spend a lot more time evaluating it.

And I dont know of any popular project that uses MPL apart from Mozilla Firefox.

We are probably going to change to Apache2 for the decoder, LGPLv3+ for the encoder.

LibreOffice?

Eigen (perhaps not "popular" unless you're interested in doing linear algebra with C++.. :-/ )?

Surely there are others as well..

If you want a weak copyleft license, IMHO MPL-2.0 is about the best available at the moment, and relatively easy to follow.

oh, good! :-)

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