Re: Gimp and GIF

[marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

    Alan> "Kurc, Marcin A." <makurc@cooperstandard.com> writes:
    >> it's all about our great friends from wehavethewayout.com -
    >> UNISYS they hold a patent for GIF. I belive there is a package
    >> called gimp-nonfree which provides gif support

    Alan> Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses
    Alan> libungif (ie, uncompressed and unencumbered by patents).
    Alan> Any reason ours doesn't?

I believe that's only for uncompressing gifs and displaying them.
Writing gifs is another thing, which depends on the patented
compression algo.  I may be way off base here, but I think I'm one the
right track...

Marshal


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