RE: Gimp and GIF

["Kurc, Marcin A." <makurc@cooperstandard.com>]

I'm no expert in that field but I think gimp uses libungif to open gif files
to save the file as gif you have to use compression which is also patented
and I don't really see a point of having uncompressed gif.
I belive the library was created to help migrate from gif to png.


Marcin Kurc
CAD Systems Administrator
Cooper-Standard Automotive 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shutko [mailto:ats@acm.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:02 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Gimp and GIF


"Kurc, Marcin A." <makurc@cooperstandard.com> writes:

> it's all about our great friends from wehavethewayout.com - UNISYS
> they hold a patent for GIF. I belive there is a package called
gimp-nonfree
> which provides gif support

Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses libungif (ie,
uncompressed and unencumbered by patents).  Any reason ours doesn't?

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
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