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From: | Michèle Garoche |
Subject: | Re: [Texmacs-dev] gif license |
Date: | Sun, 11 May 2003 17:37:50 +0200 |
Le dimanche, 11 mai 2003, à 12:51 Europe/Paris, Martin Costabel a écrit :
And don't forget that a bunch of graphics applications do not allow anymore to manipulate gif files (at least on Mac OS X), don't know on other platforms. It may sound like a punishment measure (and I fully agree with), but I doubt that even after termination of the license, vendors return to gif files (I may be wrong here).David Allouche wrote:On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:50:45AM +0200, Michèle Garoche wrote:So, that's a problem if they are gif files, as we are not supposed to use gif files (license), are we? They were integrated last year >>> byThis is software patent problem over the LZW algorithm used in GIF.Apart from that, texmacs' problem with these is that it doesn't treat files with the wrong extension correctly.
Michèle <http://micmacfr.homeunix.org/>
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