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Open format
An open format is a format of which the specification is free of proprietary standards. Open File Format must be re-distributable by anyone for free of charge; however, does not necessarily need to allow modification to the format itself. The goal of an open format is to allow users to read and write a file without using a proprietary software.
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Patents
Although many open formats are open sourced, many of them are formats that used to have patents. For example, GIF used to be a proprietary format by Unisys until they terminated the terms in 1999
Examples of open formats
- FLAC (an audio format)
- HTML (a markup language)
- JPEG (an image format)
- OGG Vorbis (an audio format)
- PNG (an image format)
- TXT (a text format)
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