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Re: [ITP] libungif-4.1.0-1


Robert,

I believe Unisys have lost their patent. They have removed their webpage regarding this issue and are no longer seeking damages. Just thought I'd FYI. In any event...

Cheers,
Nicholas

Robert Collins wrote:

What about
ldesc: "programs to convert GIF images
These are some programs that use libungif to convert images.

The libungif library is a specially modified version of giflib which
is free of the Unisys LZW patent.  It can read all GIFs, but only
write uncompressed GIFs."

(Courtesy of debian).

Rob


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Lapo Luchini
Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2002 10:52 AM
To: Mailing@syncretize.net; List@syncretize.net:CygWin-Apps
Subject: [ITP] libungif-4.1.0-1


Libungif: a library for using uncompressed GIFs.

<here goes the ldesc>

Unfortunately I came up with no ldesc... the one on the site is way too long and I don't consider myself a skilled enough english writer to write an official text =P
Anyone has ideas?
Maybe tomorrow I could think something.

Anyway libungif is useful to me to package imlib, which is useful to me to package freeciv with gtk support... but it's a good library to read GIF and to create uncompressed gif: it is so patent-unencumebered.
I think cygwin shouldn't go without it 0=)


http://www.lapo.it/tmp/libungif-4.1.0-1.tar.bz2
http://www.lapo.it/tmp/libungif-4.1.0-1-src.tar.bz2

@ libungif
sdesc: "Libungif is a library for using uncompressed GIFs"
category: Libs
requires: cygwin
curr: 4.1.0-1



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