Hi!

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:58:10PM +0300, Anton Yabchinskiy wrote:
>Hi. Here is the port that I've made while working on net/tkabber.
>Tclers, please test.

>>From pkg/DESCR:
>The IMG package provides the handling of several image formats
>beyond the standard formats in Tk. The formats supported by Img's
>are: BMP, GIF (with transparency, but without LZW, due to patent
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>restrictions), ico, JPEG, pcx, pixmap, PNG, ppm, postscript, sgi,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>sun, tga, TIFF, window, XBM, XPM.

The GIF-related patents are long dead. *rolls eyes*

See for example http://www.kyzer.me.uk/essays/giflzw/

The last patent mentioned there expired in 2006.

Kind regards,

Hannah.

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