Re: gif patent has expired

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 09:29 -0800, Carol Lerche wrote:
> See this timeline.  As that timeline shows, 6 months remain on the IBM
> patent, but they have never asserted it, because it is widely seen as
> invalid when juxtaposed with the Unisys patent of the same thing. 

Yes, but it's all done by gdk-pixbuf, which does not appear to be able
to save gif at least up to 2.6.10, only load them.

-Lars

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