Robert, I believe Unisys have lost their patent. They have removed their webpage regarding this issue and are no longer seeking damages. Just thought I'd FYI. In any event...
Cheers, Nicholas Robert Collins wrote: >What about >ldesc: "programs to convert GIF images > These are some programs that use libungif to convert images. > > The libungif library is a specially modified version of giflib which > is free of the Unisys LZW patent. It can read all GIFs, but only > write uncompressed GIFs." > >(Courtesy of debian). > >Rob > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lapo Luchini >>Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2002 10:52 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:CygWin-Apps >>Subject: [ITP] libungif-4.1.0-1 >> >> >>Libungif: a library for using uncompressed GIFs. >> >><here goes the ldesc> >> >>Unfortunately I came up with no ldesc... the one on the site >>is way too >>long and I don't consider myself a skilled enough english writer to >>write an official text =P >>Anyone has ideas? >>Maybe tomorrow I could think something. >> >>Anyway libungif is useful to me to package imlib, which is >>useful to me >>to package freeciv with gtk support... but it's a good >>library to read >>GIF and to create uncompressed gif: it is so patent-unencumebered. >>I think cygwin shouldn't go without it 0=) >> >> >http://www.lapo.it/tmp/libungif-4.1.0-1.tar.bz2 >http://www.lapo.it/tmp/libungif-4.1.0-1-src.tar.bz2 > >@ libungif >sdesc: "Libungif is a library for using uncompressed GIFs" >category: Libs >requires: cygwin >curr: 4.1.0-1 >
