Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 03:47:29PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
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> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
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> > I found that > 60 packages in Debian have .gifs included.
> >
> > I will probably fill wishlist bugs against them all unless
> > someone oppose this.
> >
> > Is it legal at all to distribute GPL'ed .gifs at all ?
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> It's my understanding that the lzw compression usually used in GIFs
> is patented, not the GIF file format itself. For example, the
> default for ImageMagick is to compile it without lzw compression
> built in. Thus it makes GIF files that are much larger in
> filesize but legal.
Doh !, not uncompressed pseudo-gifs.
I was asking if GPLed LZW gifs are legal at all ?
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