Re: libgr

["Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>]

Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>, in a magnificent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Is libgr safe to include in the distribution?  Or does it suffer from
>the GIF patent problem?  (I'm leaving it in Incoming for now.)

This package doesn't actually have gif handling capability.  That's in
the netpbm package...This is just libraries to handle tiff, jpeg (left
to the libjpeg package), netp[bngp]m, png encoding as well as rle and
gzip/zlib/"pk"zip encoding.

Anyone know where the latest resolution of the GIF dispute could be
found?

Darren
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