Re: Picture-Viewer für woody
Jhair Tocancipa Triana schreibt:
>>[...]
>> Sicher? Galt das nicht nur für Encoder?
> Nein, LZW Enkodierung und Dekodierung wurden von Unisys
> patentiert.
Hmmm... aber wenn das Program _nur_ dekodieren kann, dann ist es in
Ordnung:
,----[ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html ]
| Decoding GIFs is a different issue. The Unisys and IBM patents are
| both written in such a way that they do not apply to a program which
| can only uncompress LZW format and cannot compress. Therefore we can
| and will include support for displaying GIF files in GNU software.
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Gruss,
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--Jhair
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