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
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,
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
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