* 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 | does not expire in most of Europe until 18 June 2004, in Japan until | 20 June 2004 and in Canada until 7 July 2004. (It is expired in the US.) (That is the cause why ppmtogif will stay in netpbm-nonfree until 7 July 2004, so it's not in netpbm-free at sarge release.) Cheers, Andi - netpbm maintainer - -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
