Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] The GIF issue

[Loic Dachary]

Bob Schader writes:
 > Dan,
 > 
 > I looked into this gif issue tonight, and found the following statement on
 > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html :
 > 
 > Decoding GIFs is a different issue. The Unisys and IBM patents are 
 > both written in such a way that they do not apply to a program which 
 > can only uncompress LZW format and cannot compress. Therefore we 
 > can and will include support for displaying GIF files in GNU software.

        The point is to boycott GIF files. This is what the GNU project
does, in addition to finding/providing technical means to avoid the
patent problems. 

        Cheers,

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