It certainly was a risk in 2013, when the open source libraries were slow and riddled with bugs. Today, there are two stable, well maintained and fast open sour

It certainly was a risk in 2013, when the open source libraries were slow and riddled with bugs. Today, there are two stable, well maintained and fast open source libraries available: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg and https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok JPEG 2000 is a niche codec, but in the niches that it occupies it is the gold standard, even after 20 years: 1. digital cinema (part of the digital cinema standard) and broadcast 2. medical imaging 3. satellite imagery For memory institutions, it still vies with Tiff as the top preservation codec.