On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 03:11:24PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I assume that the Debian galeon is just not shipping support for GIF > files since we all know the non-free nature of them. And in fact I > did not notice for a long time. Except to say that ad banners were > less visible. A nice benefit. However, I ran into one site where I > really wanted to see a GIF there and noticed that I did not have it > and now can't figure out how to enable them. I'm fairly sure that it's fine (in a legal sense, not a long-term Freedom sense) to produce software that can view gif's, since the Unisys patent only applies to the LZW _compression_ algorithm, not the decompression side of it. > I have another almost identical Debian installation with Galeon > installed similarly and I _DO_ see GIFs on that installation. And > comparing the packages installed on those two boxes have also not > yielded anything that gave me a clue yet. Both are running galeon > 1.2.5-0.woody.1. So I believe there must be some other difference. > > Any clues? I am sure I am missing something very simple. Data point: ldd says my /usr/bin/galeon-bin is linked against /usr/lib/libungif.so.4. I'm using galeon from sid, version 1.2.5-1. Do gifs show up under Mozilla? -rob
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