Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jose M. Fdez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 21:05]: > Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF > images is now back in the main Gimp package. I hope this is not true, otherwise it would be a RC-bug. According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html the unisys patent

Re: Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Jose M. Fdez wrote: > Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF > images is now back in the main Gimp package. Only in the US... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/

Re: Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Jose M. Fdez
Josip Rodin dijo: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:50:54PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > > >BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted. > > > > Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably? > > No, I believe it's gone because libtiff linkage has been declared non-free > by mistake since libtiff was

Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:50:54PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > >BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted. > > Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably? No, I believe it's gone because libtiff linkage has been declared non-free by mistake since libtiff was never made to include actual pat

Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Paul C. Bryan
Josip Rodin wrote: BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted. Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably?