From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 22 18:31:13 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4714637B889; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C901CDE; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:31:05 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Satoshi Asami Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules ports/graphics Makefile ports/graphics/giflib Makefile ports/graphics/giflib/files md5 ports/graphics/giflib/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST In-Reply-To: Message from Satoshi Asami of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:29:50 PST." <200002230029.QAA29100@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:31:05 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000223023105.B0C901CDE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Satoshi Asami wrote: > Removed files: > graphics/giflib Makefile > graphics/giflib/files md5 > graphics/giflib/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST > Log: > Remove giflib as per agreement on ports list, the authors do not > support this software anymore and Unisys claims patents on it. There > are no more ports that depend on giflib. Great news!! :-) It's even better that the ports that did depend on it now use libungif, which does appeal to my sense of humor. It's going to take a lot more work now for Unisys to determine whether a .gif is compressed (using the LZW patent) or uncompressed (totally unrestricted). Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message