Re: Using VB: missing GIF files

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:52:27PM -0400, lanas wrote:

> That was it. SuSE 9.3 is now known for that! They're known for no
> mp3 support due to copyright reasons and now for no GIF support for I
> presume the same reasons.

It is not clear why would they do such a thing, since:

a) libungif is unincumbered by the gif compression patent, and
b) the patent has expired anyway
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement)

Uh, well.

\Anton.

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