Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Feb 2006 10:50 UTC, submitted by editingwhiz
Google and CodeWeavers are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say. The Linux Picasa implementation includes the full feature set of the Windows Picasa 2.x software. It is not, strictly speaking, a port of Picasa to Linux. Instead, Linux Picasa combines Windows Picasa code and Wine technology to run Windows Picasa on Linux. This, however, will be transparent to Linux users, when they download, install, and run the free program on their systems.
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2005-07-06
There are no patents there as I imagine it uses the underlying Windows multimedia framework to display those movies, it's not like they bundle a copy of the Quicktime codec into every copy.
Were they to write a Linux port (which is unlikely) they'd just use Linux's equivalents of the underlying technology like Xine.
Forgent's JPEG patent is quite murky, there are lots of companies that have released products with JPEG support that haven't licensed it (e.g. Firefox). Patents aren't the issue. The issue is most likely the lack of any decent sort of pay-off from open-sourcing it, most people with the necessary Win32 skills have full-time jobs, Win32 simply isn't something that has an open-source eco-sphere.