Re: giflib, what version and WHERE?

Thursday, 30 April 1998

        SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes:

...
 > 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 thought only the compression (i.e. GIF creation) was patented?

...
 I also don't think it would matter if a copy of giflib got
magically
 posted on Usenet via an anonymous remailer. 
Oh.  :-(

...
 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. 
Yup.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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