On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > Alexey Dokuchaev ha scritto: > >Per libungif's pkg-descr, it's not just being unencumbered by patents, but > >also "implements a superset of that [giflib's] library's API". > > It's a superset because it doesn't implement the LZW patented compression.
Shouldn't it read "subset" in this case then? > >Regardless > >of the possible API and patent issues, what makes libgif a 'preferred' > >solution? > > The fact that they shared the same codebase and now only giflib is > developed (and has also LZW compression). Ah, well, if giflib is currently being developed, and libungif is not (i.e. essentially being abandonware), then I don't have any objection on moving to giflib. Thanks for the insight Alex. ./danfe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
