On Saturday 24 April 2004 19:58, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Alan Horkan <horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I was thinking that Jpeg support might have to be preemptively > > removed like Gif support was removed. (Although the Gif patents > > have expired in America and will expire in Europe in June) > > When was GIF support removed and why didn't I notice? Some Linux distributions, as well as popular windows binary packages come out without the GIF plug-in. It is usually downloadable as a separate plug-in with a note for the patent issues. This can be a major PITA sometimes (you need to do GIF, and just find out the live Linux CD with GIMP on it is lacking the gif plug-in for example) > > > Sven > _______________________________________________ >
