Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Don Marti wrote:
> But if you must have a category for "free software to create a GIF",
> neither non-us nor non-free seems to apply.
What of the sort of thing that was used in the older (pre-PNG) releases of
GD? I.e. code that generates GIF files that an ordinary GIF viewer can
read, without using the LZW algorithm itself?
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> whois DM683 | http://burnallgifs.org/
>
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