Re: Cannot "save as" GIF format

Am Thursday 22 March 2007 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>- Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                           
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> ------- Additional Comments From caulier.gilles gmail
com  2007-03-22 09:15
> ------- To be more explicit, GIF format is supported by
Qt or KDE libs (not
> digiKam itself directly). Duing pattents over GIF,
there is no code to
> write on file format (or it have been removed).
>
> For this pattents problem, there is no plan to support
GIF in digiKam core.
>
> I recommend you to use PNG instead. It an open source
file format dedicaced
> to remplace GIF.
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Seems that "...GIFs that are based on the 87a or 89a
standard are acceptable" 
from last october onwards 
(http://www.gnu.org/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.
html#UseofGraphics)

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