Re: the gimp?

[Ashley Clark <aclark@ghoti.org>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote:
> I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free
> software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is
> going too far IMHO.

You're more than welcome to install the gimp-nonfree package if you
absolutely must have compressed gif support.

> I prefer that the gimp is not distributed with Debian if Debian
> can't leave the gimp package intact.

Why? I'd rather a have a completely free version with an optional
nonfree module than to have to chunk the whole thing into nonfree,
but that's me.

-- 
Ashley Clark