It really pains me to have to do this, but UniSys has given us no
choice. Due to their claims that "Our patents cover both creating
graphics and displaying (e.g., reading, decompressing) LZW. As such,
a license is rquired to create or distribute products incorporating
such capability." we must remove this support from XEmacs, and I am
requesting that all of you who've downloaded GifReader please delete
it.
1998-07-21 P. E. Jareth Hein <jareth(a)camelot.co.jp>
* glyphs.c: Fix docstring of image-specifier-p to note added
TIFF support and removal of GIF support
* configure.in, glyphs-x.c, config.h.in: Removal of GIF support due to patent problems.
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