Re: mauve results posted nightly

[Stuart Ballard]

Brian Jones wrote:
> Stuart Ballard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
>
> If this web page is correct, GIF will be free next year.

It also mentions libungif which produces patent-free uncompressed gifs.

apt-cache search led me to libungif-bin (debian package, may use other 
names elsewhere) which includes tools to convert "normal" gifs to 
patent-free ones.

A 1x1.gif produced by one of these libungif-bin programs should be safe. 
So far I haven't been able to figure out which, if any, of them is 
capable of producing a 1x1 pixel gif from scratch where the single pixel 
is transparent, but presumably something there is. The documentation 
seems a little lacking, and the choices of programs to include seems 
very random...

Stuart.

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