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Re: FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage


From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
Subject: Re: FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:02:00 +0900
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>>>>> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:38:38 -0500, "Richard M. Stallman" 
>>>>> <address@hidden> said:

> What does Emacs use Quicktime for?  I am very concerned about this.
> It might be a GPL violation, but if it isn't it still might be a
> very bad thing for Emacs to work with a proprietary video format.

For decoding PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF images.  Nothing more.
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-01/msg00230.html)
And I think QuickTime is "normally distributed with the major
components of the operating system on which the executable runs" for
the case that "the operating system" is Mac OS.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
                                address@hidden




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