From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 20:46:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE22837B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:46:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D578819CD; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:46:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:46:45 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Jason R Mastaler Cc: Will Andrews , Arun Sharma , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qt-2.2.1_1 with -gif ? Message-ID: <20001029234645.R10767@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20001029185121.A27542@sharmas.dhs.org> <20001029215606.M10767@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jason@mastaler.com on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:42:36PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:42:36PM -0700, Jason R Mastaler wrote: > Instead of just disabling GIF support, can't you just make that the > default with `-gif' as an option in an env variable or make.conf so > that the port maintainer isn't responsible for whether we break the > patent or not? No, because it's not just the maintainer - it's also FreeBSD.org. Do you want to pay FreeBSD.org/BSDI's legal bills ? > Otherwise, apps such as konqueror are more or less useless since GIF > is still so widely used. C'est la vie. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message