Re: Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
Josip Rodin dijo:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:50:54PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> > >BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted.
> >
> > Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably?
>
> No, I believe it's gone because libtiff linkage has been declared non-free
> by mistake since libtiff was never made to include actual patented
> algorithms by default (I think I had filed a bug about that ages ago) and
> the libgif linkage was replaced with libungif, or the GIF patent expired,
> or something like that.
Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF
images is now back in the main Gimp package.
Greets
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Jose M. Fernández Navarro | Debian GNU/Linux User #197079
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