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Subject: Re: gif in gd2?
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>  Hi,
> 
>  Can someone please explain to me the rationale behind adding gif support
>  to graphics/gd2? gif support was officially removed from gd with version
>  1.6. Does the FreeBSD project have a license from UniSYS?
UniSYS patented algorithm?
Most of countries do not consider algorithms patentable IMHO
It is quite clear:
0cicuta~(5)>grep '*' /usr/ports/graphics/gd2/Makefile
        @${ECHO_CMD} "************************************************************"
        @${ECHO_CMD} "*      If you live outside US and Canada, you can define   *"
        @${ECHO_CMD} "*      WITH_LZW to enable GIF compression support.         *"
        @${ECHO_CMD} "************************************************************"
        @${CP} ${FILESDIR}/g* ${WRKSRC}

>  (While reworking the configure script for gnuplot-cvs, I was wondering
>   about the strange result that it found a gd library that supports both
>   png and gif.)

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