From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 2 18:50:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id A774E14F28; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D281CD8C4; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:50:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Chuck Robey Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, FreeBSD Ports Team Subject: Re: ports/13552: The gnuplot doesn't build with GIF support enabled In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'll be fixing this, this weekend, using the method that's > (unfortunately) the one the the gnuplot authors want: I'll be making a > port of the old 1.4 version of the gd stuff, with clear notes to folks > NOT to update this, and I'll rename the lib to libgdold. I'll then set > up gnuplot to link to libgdold, and then we'll all be cracking. Wouldn't that be illegal - the reason the gd port shifted to png was because the previous version was cited for patent infringement. In other words, we shouldn't distribute it either. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message