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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:27:20 -0800
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PR ports/16672
Message-ID:  <20000213222720.F9728@norn.ca.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200002140612.WAA14541@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@cs.berkeley.edu on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:12:11PM -0800
References:  <200002140612.WAA14541@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Authors of giflib are recommending switching over to libungif, which
> only creates uncompressed (i.e., not using LZW compression) GIFs to
> avoid infringing on Unisys's patent claims.
> 
> What do you guys think?  If this is ok I'll go change all the
> LIB_DEPENDS lines to point to libungif so we can fix things that break
> before the freeze.

Sounds okay to me.  This also would close PR 16672 once giflib is removed.

-Chris
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cpiazza@jaxon.net   cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
        Abbotsford, BC, Canada


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