Adding back compressed GIF code to cernlib after July 7 -- any objections?

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Hi all,

My understanding is that the last known patent on LZW compression held
by Unisys, in Canada, expires tomorrow, July 7th 2004.  I plan to ask my
sponsor, Bas Zoetekouw, to upload a version of cernlib with compressed
GIF creation support added back in soon afterwards.  (This may be
delayed several days from the expiry date due to some real-life
obligations I have.)  Any objections?

N.B.  I have always previously removed compressed GIF creation source
code from the orig.tar.gz of the cernlib packages distributed by Debian.

regards,

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