Re: xsane-saving formats

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> Oliver Rauch wrote:
> > Does anyone know an important and free library or format that
> > should be supported too ? - GIF is not planned because of copyright,
> > unGIF is not interesting because data reduction is not included.
>
> Does there really exist a problem with the copyright of the GIF
> compression algorithm? Nearly all programs support GIF today, and I
> think the discussion was over.
>

Gif may be used for private stuff, for comercial things you need a licenceas far
as I know.

> The best thing for xsane was to implement a netpbm interface; it is
> present on nearly all platforms today and you don't have to implement
> all this stuff again.
>

I will think about that.

Bye
Oliver

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