On 06/11/2007, Mike Sullivan <Mike.Sullivan at sun.com> wrote: > Stefan Teleman wrote: > > > > Including LibMNG [The Multiple-image Network Graphics Library] with Solaris > > so just a quick question - is sfw really the best place for this? I know > sfw used to have things like tiff, png, and jpg but they long ago moved > to jds, so I'd more expect to see libmng go there. I would hate > to get this into sfw then in a few months waste a bunch of time > coordinating a move to jds and dealing with possible issues. > > oh and I see it understands GIF - is that something we can bundle > now? I just remember that being a problem before, but I can't remember > if it was a patent issue or that we had to use libungif (which > is on the ccd - ah maybe it's compressed gif's that are the problem > so if mng doesn't do those it's probably safe regardless)
Patents on "plain ole'" gif expired a few years ago if I'm not mistaken. However, compressed gif's may indeed be problematic if they use lzw, etc. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
