***** EB => Edward Betts EB> Gimp lacks support for GIFs and TIFFs because of pantent problems.
[...] EB> How would you suggest he rectifies this problem without mentioning EB> non-free software? Just tell them not to use TIFF or GIF? Patent restriction does not imply freedom restriction: they are two very different matters. In other words, gimp-non-free is misnamed, and (software license permitting) it should go directly to non-US/main, which is main (i.e., perfectly free software). The package gimp could thus suggest gimp-tiff-gif without any problem. On the other hand, if gimp-non-free was really non-free software, I think we should not suggest it in any way from main, even if that was the only available way to use TIFF or GIF. This isn't the case, however. Cheers, -- Davide G. M. Salvetti - IW5DZC [JN53fr] - <http://www.linux.it/%7Esalve/> <http://www.gnu.org/> * <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.linux.org>
