Re: giflib, what version and WHERE?

Thursday, 30 April 1998

        Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes:

...
 jareth(a)camelot-soft.com (P. E. Jareth Hein) writes:
> Jens Lautenbacher <jens(a)tellux.de&gt; writes:
> 
> > OK, it seems XEmacs wants version 3.1, but I've been unable to find
> > this somewhere... all I see are rpms for 3.04 or such...
> > 
> > any pointers would be welcome..
> 
> giflib 3.1 is mine, but I'm getting cold feet... Unisys is apparently
> getting frisky (again) about enforcing patents, and my publicly
> releasing giflib sounds like I could be opening myself up for a world
> of hurt. 
...
 Why don't you release a giflib lite that knows only how to read
GIFs,
 not write them?  Then you could wash your hands off the full version,
 until the dust settles. 
I don't believe that resolves the patent problem.  I also don't think
it would matter if a copy of giflib got magically posted on Usenet via 
an anonymous remailer.

Maybe now _is_ a good time to convert all our GIFs to PNGs.  The
(potential) lack of GIF support is going to hurt W3 though.

XEmacs[1] is small-fry as things in the world go.  We've always been in
violation of US export laws[2] (crypto hooks/Mailcrypt), but have never
been hassled about it.

Footnotes: 
[1]  And apparently FSF Emacs as well.

[2]  Well, depending upon _who_ is interpreting it _how_, today ... :-(

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