On Thursday 27 December 2001 11.12, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Anders Johansson; on 27 Dec, 2001 wrote:

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convert can do it. It is a program in the ImageMagick suite.

Many thanks

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But why would you want to? GIF is a proprietary format!

Because the outcome of the job I am doing is also proprietary, I sometimes need to dine out, buy presents to wife etc. etc. Unless you mean I can not use GIF pictures in any websites, and in other stuff then I will consider alternatives. If I can, why bother if it's opensource or not :-)

That's my point. You can't use gif in proprietary commercial endeavours without paying royalties to Unisys (or was it compuserve). png will let you complete your commercial project and keep all the profits for yourself, or perhaps charge a little less to the client. //Anders

On 27 Dec 2001, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

Because the outcome of the job I am doing is also proprietary, I sometimes need to dine out, buy presents to wife etc. etc. Unless you mean I can not use GIF pictures in any websites, and in other stuff then I will consider alternatives. If I can, why bother if it's opensource or not :-)

Although Unisys has changed their mind many times, I believe the license stands as follows: if you plan to, or are making a profit, from the tool / website / software / etc. that has GIFs, you have to pay up. This only refers to _encoding_ GIFs, as they didn't patent the decoding of them. http://burnallgifs.org/ is a good site you might want to check out. Other than that, it's free. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0