begin marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp quotation: > > Alan> Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses > Alan> libungif (ie, uncompressed and unencumbered by patents). > Alan> Any reason ours doesn't? > > I believe that's only for uncompressing gifs and displaying them. > Writing gifs is another thing, which depends on the patented > compression algo. I may be way off base here, but I think I'm one the > right track... libungif is used to write non-compressed GIFs. Why anybody would want to write non-compressed GIFs is left as an exercise for the reader. Hint: really old browsers. -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/debian-user-199910/msg00981.html
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