Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 03:04:00 +0900 From: "R. Imura" <imura@af.airnet.ne.jp> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org Cc: andrews@technologist.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/18906: No gif images in KDE 1.1.2 applications. Message-ID: <20000602030400I.imura@cs.titech.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <39369E0D.67E77C4E@FreeBSD.org> References: <200006011720.KAA09489@freefall.freebsd.org> <39369E0D.67E77C4E@FreeBSD.org>
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> > > No KDE 1.1.2 applications can display gif images. > > > > There's a reason for this: Unisys's GIF patent. > > Libungif solved this problem, isn't it? Qt-1.x has gif decoder in itself, and does not use libgif nor libungif. KDE-1.x uses qt's gif decoder, so it won't solve by libungif. The author says in qt_gif.h that "a separate license from Unisys may be required to use the gif reader", and I respect the author. - R. Imura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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