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+jai-imageio-core README for Fedora and EPEL
+===========================================
+
+This package contains a CVS snapshot of jai-imageio-core from
+https://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/.
+
+Because of copyright issues, some functionality has been removed
+for packaging in Fedora and EPEL:
+
+ * JAI Image I/O Operations
+ * JPEG 2000 support
+ * codecLib (C implementation of plugins for JPEG, PNG, and TIFF)
+
+
+Everything else should work, including java.nio based ImageIO streams,
+and ImageIO readers/writers for:
+
+ * BMP
+ * GIF
+ * PCX
+ * PNM
+ * "Raw" (not digital camera RAW)
+ * TIFF (some formats unavailable because of missing codecLib)
+ * PCX
+ * WBMP
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-jai-imageio-core README for Fedora and EPEL
-===========================================
-
-This package contains a CVS snapshot of jai-imageio-core from
-https://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/.
-
-Because of copyright issues, some functionality has been removed
-for packaging in Fedora and EPEL:
-
- * JAI Image I/O Operations
- * JPEG 2000 support
- * codecLib (C implementation of plugins for JPEG, PNG, and TIFF)
-
-
-Everything else should work, including java.nio based ImageIO streams,
-and ImageIO readers/writers for:
-
- * BMP
- * GIF
- * PCX
- * PNM
- * "Raw" (not digital camera RAW)
- * TIFF (some formats unavailable because of missing codecLib)
- * PCX
- * WBMP