tech-pkg: LZW patent and lib(un)gif

Subject: LZW patent and lib(un)gif
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/13/2005 17:24:47

Hi all,
if I remember correctly, the LZW patent has expired
quite a while ago. Is there a good reason to continue
using libungif? libtiff should already include the LZW
code again.

Joerg