Re: gif-creating applications?

2003-08-15 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi Hello. what's the legal status of inclusion of gif-creating applications in debian? Is it ok to include it in main, contrib or non-free? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html says that the latest patent expiry is 7 July 2004

Re: gif-creating applications?

2003-08-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:06:28PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: GIF-producing binaries that use only RLE (run length encoding) are not patent-encumbered and may be placed in main. However, generating a GIF that's compressed with RLE is a complete waste of time. You might as well use BMP,

gif-creating applications?

2003-08-08 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi what's the legal status of inclusion of gif-creating applications in debian? Is it ok to include it in main, contrib or non-free? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html says that the latest patent expiry is 7 July 2004, but Unisys seems to have given parts of their patent free (but only