Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 04:19:04 +0300 (MSK) From: "."@babolo.ru To: Lars Hecking <lhecking@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gif in gd2? Message-ID: <200212190119.gBJ1J43k047772@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <20021217201835.GA2688@nmrc.ie>
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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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