Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
Josip Rodin wrote: BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted. Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably?
Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:50:54PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted. Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably? No, I believe it's gone because libtiff linkage has been declared non-free by mistake since libtiff was never made to include actual patented algorithms by default (I think I had filed a bug about that ages ago) and the libgif linkage was replaced with libungif, or the GIF patent expired, or something like that. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
Josip Rodin dijo: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:50:54PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: BTW gimp(1.2)-nonfree was recently obsoleted. Because it is making way for 1.3 presumably? No, I believe it's gone because libtiff linkage has been declared non-free by mistake since libtiff was never made to include actual patented algorithms by default (I think I had filed a bug about that ages ago) and the libgif linkage was replaced with libungif, or the GIF patent expired, or something like that. Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF images is now back in the main Gimp package. Greets -- Jose M. Fernández Navarro | Debian GNU/Linux User #197079 Benetússer - València, Spain | http://mural.uv.es/~joferna
Re: Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
Hi, Jose M. Fdez wrote: Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF images is now back in the main Gimp package. Only in the US... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 pgpJb2drKCO42.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
* Jose M. Fdez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 21:05]: Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF images is now back in the main Gimp package. I hope this is not true, otherwise it would be a RC-bug. According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html the unisys patent | does not expire in most of Europe until 18 June 2004, in Japan until | 20 June 2004 and in Canada until 7 July 2004. (It is expired in the US.) (That is the cause why ppmtogif will stay in netpbm-nonfree until 7 July 2004, so it's not in netpbm-free at sarge release.) Cheers, Andi - netpbm maintainer - -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
