Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of algif - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

address@hidden (Jonathan Gonzalez V.) writes:

Hi Elias Pscherning:

I'm waiting for an answer from you.

If within one week I still do not get a reply, I will remove your
project. You will still be able to register it again once you have the
time to deal with the registration issues. 

Regards,

>> Elias Pschernig <address@hidden> described the package as
>> follows: License: expat Other License: Package: algif System name:
>> algif Type: non-GNU
>
>> Description: This is a small addon to the Allegro Game Programming
>> library, which allows the use of images in the .gif file format. It
>> allows loading and saving of .gif images by registering as one of
>> Allegro's supported formats. And it also enables placing of .gif
>> images into Allegro datafiles by registering as a datafile object
>> type.
>
>> The source code can be found here (only one .c and one .h file):
>> http://allefant.sf.net/allegro/gif.c
>> http://allefant.sf.net/allegro/gif.h
>
>
>> Other Software Required: Allegro - http://alleg.sf.net
>
> Hi Elias Pschernig:
>
> As you said, is a small addon, did you ask to the Allegro team if they
> can merge your work in the Allegro project? If you still want to
> register as a new project, you can check this URL as an example to
> learn how to apply a license to your project:
>
>       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>
> There's another problem with your project and is that we cannot hosted
> in our servers in USA because the LZW compression algorithm is
> patented by Unisys and IBM and these patents also apply to compress
> program.
>       
> For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html.
>
>
> Regards
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