Subject: Bug#3284: giftrans is free

From: Marek Michalkiewicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:22:00 +0200 (MET DST)

Package: giftrans
Version: 1.12-6

The copyright of this package looks free enough to me.  While
it does have "gif" in the name, reading the source reveals that
it does NOT perform any US-patented LZW compression!  It simply
changes a few things in the GIF header, and copies compressed
data as is.  So I think it should be OK to move it to the free
"graphics" section.

Compu$erve has a copyright (or was it a trademark?) on the GIF
format, but all they want is "give credit where credit is due"
- they require acknowledgement, probably no big problem for us.
One can be found near end of /usr/doc/copyright/xv for example.

Marek