Re: emacs and libungif
Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com> writes:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
>
>> I noticed problems displaying some images with w3m-el in emacs and I
>> noticed that gif-support is complied out. I remade the package
>> locally from source and it seems to work fine, now. I was just
>> wondering why it wasn't compiled in.
>
> Presumably because GIFs aren't "free"?
The patent on plaguing GIFs is not the actual format, but rather the
algorithm for compressing them. libungif can't create compressed GIFs,
it can however decompress them because that isn't covered by the patent.
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Booting... /vmemacs.el
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