True, and that's a good thing. libJPEG (from the IJPEG
group), libTIFF, etc. are all well debugged and easier to use as is
that to rewrite.
>The GIF decoding (which isn't covered by that patent, right?) can be taken
>straight out of Magick, as well as many of the other formats.
You don't have to license stuff from Unisys to decode GIF...
>For most of these things, it's just going to require minor modification of
>the Magick code to output to the internal AbiWord image structure (which I
>currently know nothing about).
I might be easier to switch AbiWord's internal structure to
ImageMagick's - or an extended version thereof.
>I think we can GPL the code (sublicense), as long as we put this copyright
>at the top of the source files. Any lawyers present?
>
Should work, and if there are any questions, I know Christy
and I'm sure he'd be willing to work out any specifics....
Leonard
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