Re: Uploaded gdk-imlib 1.3-2 (source i386) to master
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
Christian> Well, are all these packages DFSG compliant? All
Christian> programs that support the GIF format are not-DFSG
Christian> compliant and thus must go into non-free. (contrib is
Christian> for DFSG free packages, which depend on non-free
Christian> packages.)
This is not true. All programs that can *create* GIF format
files are not DFSG compliant. *Reading* GIF format files is
not patented, as the stupid Unisys "patent" only covers the
LZW compression algorithm. Not decompression. So, for instance,
Mozilla is okay.
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