Bruce Dubbs wrote:
My understaning is the same as yours: all the patents have expired. The issue here is whether we need both these packages in the book or indeed, to know if they can or should both be installed on a single system.The libraries do have differnt names, but the listing of programs seems to be the same. I wonder if we could jsut drop ungif and make symbolic links from libungif.{so,a} to libgif.(so,a}?
Oops. To answer your question, yes. But I have a better question for you. When the heck were those symlinks removed?!?!? :-) They were there sometime between 5.1 and 6.0....really I think....maybe not. SVN log shows nothing of it...maybe I'm just going bonkers. Oh well.
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