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Re: libungif purpose?



>> pkgsrc still contains libungif. My understanding was that this was a
>> stub library to be used when the GIF LZW patent was still applicable
>> to avoid having to pay for it, which only provided support for
>> uncompressed gif images.
>> 
>> Does anyone see a reason we should still have this and not just switch
>> to giflib completely?
> 
> I would guess that it's smaller; maybe someone cares for that
> reason... otherwise I'd say it's probably time for it to be retired.

libungif is old and unmaintained. I go for retirement.

Adam


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