RFC: giflib and libungif

[Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)]

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In September 2005[1], Corinna asked to postpone including giflib in the
distro until after all known LZW patents had expired.  According to the
GNU website[2], this has already occurred.  May I now proceed with
ITPing it?

[1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-09/msg00530.html
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

FWIW, the following distros already include giflib: FC6[3], Debian
stable[4], Ubuntu 6.10[5], SUSE 10.1[6].

[3] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/
[4] http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/giflib
[5] http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/source/giflib
[6] http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/giflib.html


Yaakov
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