Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:46:45 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qt-2.2.1_1 with -gif ? Message-ID: <20001029234645.R10767@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <x7snpfq6rn.fsf@aguirre.la.mastaler.com>; from jason@mastaler.com on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:42:36PM -0700 References: <20001029185121.A27542@sharmas.dhs.org> <20001029215606.M10767@puck.firepipe.net> <x7snpfq6rn.fsf@aguirre.la.mastaler.com>
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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
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