On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 03:47:29PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > I found that > 60 packages in Debian have .gifs included. > > > > I will probably fill wishlist bugs against them all unless > > someone oppose this. > > > > Is it legal at all to distribute GPL'ed .gifs at all ? > > It's my understanding that the lzw compression usually used in GIFs > is patented, not the GIF file format itself. For example, the > default for ImageMagick is to compile it without lzw compression > built in. Thus it makes GIF files that are much larger in > filesize but legal.
Doh !, not uncompressed pseudo-gifs. I was asking if GPLed LZW gifs are legal at all ?
