Re: Thoughts about the GIF/LZW question
Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net> writes:
> On Jun 24, William Brioschi wrote:
> > * in main:
> > g2 - "gif support removed because it depends on a non free library"
> > giftrans - write gif
> > libgd1g - write gif
> > libgd1g-dev - write gif
> > libtiff3g - write tiff?
> > libtiff3g-dev - write tiff?
> > mrtg - write gif?
> > plplot-tcl - write gif?
> > webmagick - write gif?
> > The gif/tiff-writing packages should go to non-US/main, IMO.
> > Does libtiff3g include the capability to write LZW-compressed TIFFs?
> > If it does, it should be split in a similar way to giflib/libungif.
The tiff libraries have ifdef wrapped around the LZW code. Anything
that uses giflib to write gif files is ok (libungif is binary
compatible and doesn't use the patented compression algorithm).
Also, I believe the patent will expire soon.
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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