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Very much so. It is very deceiving to have a lengthy discussion on licenses and not mention that using this on a public-facing website without a comprehensive patent license in place is going to get you sued.

So it's nowhere a JPEG replacement then in practical terms. Something based on Daala or AV1 would make more sense.

We already have FLIF.

My understanding is that it's biggest problem is decode speed.

I don't know anything about how the licencing works, and what parts are covered, but the patents reported to ITU for H.265/HEVC as a whole is substantial, see: https://www.itu.int/itu-t/recommendations/related_ps.aspx?id...

Basically it is useless.

Only in countries with software patents.