Hi, "Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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) Sure, but we can't do anything about that. We even added the possibility to compile the GIF plug-in w/o support for LZW compression. This allows packagers to include a GIF plug-in that doesn't have any potential patent problems. We will also not remove the JPEG plug-in from the GIMP tarball. If packagers decide to not include it in their binary packages for whatever reason, that's the problem of the packagers (and their customers) then. Sven
