Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] The GIF issue

[Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)]

Bob Schader wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, the issue is in inlcuding gifs at all

> So I guess I don't see what the problem is, except for the very act of
> providing the gifs in the first place. If this is the main issue, then we 
> could
> get around that by using GNU's own "libungif" to create gif files that
> are not compressed using LZW, if this would not cause a big bandwidth
> problem. People could then have the option to re-optimize the
> uncompressed or pseudo gifs to their own prefernce. I personally do not see
> where this would violate any GNU standards, because of the above statement
> and GNU's own support of libungif.

Interesting idea. Do you have time to find out what size diff we are
talking about?

Seek3r