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 <h1>pnmtojbig</h1>
-Updated: 20 May 2000
+Updated: 28 July 2020
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 <a href="#index">Table Of Contents</a>
 
@@ -258,9 +258,8 @@ in directory pub/doc/ISO/JBIG/.
 
 <h2 id="license">LICENSE</h2>
 
-If you use <b>pnmtojbig</b>, you are using various patents,
-particularly on its arithmetic encoding method, and in all probability
-you do not have a license from the patent owners to do so.
+<p>There was at one time concern about the need for patent licenses to
+use <b>jbigtopnm</b>, but any relevant patents expired by 2012.
 
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 <h2 id="index">Table Of Contents</h2>