Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of giflib, Larry Daffner, has orphaned this package. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- retitle this bug from 'O:' to 'ITA:', fix the outstanding bugs and upload a new version with your name in the Maintainer: field and a
* New maintainer (Closes: #thisbug) in the changelog so this bug is closed. Some information about this package: Package: giflib3g Priority: extra Section: non-free/libs Installed-Size: 84 Maintainer: Larry Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: giflib Version: 3.0-6 Replaces: libungif3g Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2), xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) Conflicts: libgif3g, libgif2, libungif3g Filename: pool/non-free/g/giflib/giflib3g_3.0-6_i386.deb Size: 22314 MD5sum: b23e8e443cb2a77cda24f62220402319 Description: shared library for GIF images (runtime lib) This is a shared library for working with GIF images. . The Graphics Interchange Format(c) specification is the copyrighted property of CompuServe Incorporated. Unfortunately, it used LZW compression for compressed GIFs, which is covered by a patent held by Unisys. As this package existed before UniSys's lawyeritis attack of New Years' Day 1995, it is grandfathered in under their license terms and you do not have to pay fees for using it. . Alternatively, you may choose to install the libungif package which is available in the main Debian distribution. The libungif package is a variant of giflib with the offending patented LZW compression code snipped out, so it can only save uncompressed GIFs. > I only have 2 packages, giflib, which hasn't been updated in a long > time for philosophical reasons, but I couldn't get enough momentum > to get removed, and xscreensaver. Someone please give them good > homes. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
