On Sep 28 20:10, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:06:31 -0500, in gmane.os.cygwin.applications > you wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Lapo Luchini wrote: > >> I'd say "up for grabs". > >> I always used to say it's "low priority", but being so low it didn't > >> get updated in months probably means that someone else may well be > >> more interested in it... > > > >I'm interested in keeping this going. But before I package it, was a > >decision ever made about including giflib in the net release (in terms > >of legalities)? This will make a big difference in how I would package > >libungif. > > We already had this discussion awhile back, and despite the FUD from > the FSF, the patent has long since expired worldwide. The only > company which might have a claim is IBM (which expires at the end of > this year), do you really think they'd care (given their recnt battle > with SCO)? Most other opensource packages with LZW capabilities have > already quitely re-integrated it back into the default source.
I don't think the FSF information given on http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html qualifies as FUD. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-09/msg00189.html Fedora also only supports uncompressing gifs via libungif. Other packages, like gimp, don't support creating LZW compressed GIFs, unly uncompressed or run-length encoded. This means, let's stick with libungif until at least 2006-08-12. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
