Harold L Hunt II wrote: > The README for both versions still lists you as the maintainer.
The evidence is on your side. Moreover I am quite braindead at the moment (I've got a "nice -n -20 openoffice thesis.odt" process taking up most of it), and that makes even easier for you to be right and me to remember wrong ;-) > At this time I'd have to say that it doesn't make a lot of sense for me > to become the maintainer, but I'd pick it up if the alternative was that > it would be removed from the distro. Actually, the same goes for me: ok that I'm not very interested in it, but letting a package die seems too much of a shame to me. BTW: but in September 2005 is there still a reason to have libUNgif? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement > On June 20 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20>, 2003 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003>, the United States patent on the > LZW algorithm expired [2] <http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw>, > which means that Unisys and Compuserve can no longer collect royalties > for use of the GIF format in that country. Those bothered with the > patent enforcement dubbed this day GIF Liberation Day. The equivalent > patents in Europe and Japan expired on June 18 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_18> and June 20 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20>, 2004 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004> respectively, with the Canada > patent following on July 7 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7>. Is it *still* active somewhere? Oven the official homepage doesn't seem to mention any place where it is: http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw I guess it MAY really be time to let libungif die, afterall, to be followed by libgif, of course. (another argument, of course, may state that it is better to use a "crippled" library, as this eases the process of migrating to newer and better formats, but I guess that by today if one is still using GIF he probably got a legacy software problem and, well, knows what he really needs) -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenPGP & X.509) www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)
