>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alan> "Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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...
Marshal
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