Opened 18 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#21 closed task (fixed)

Enable the GIF support by default

Reported by: dmik Owned by: dmik
Priority: normal Milestone: qt-os2-3.3.1-rc07
Component: kernel Version:
Severity: normal Keywords: GIF
Cc:

Description

For the official Qt binary distribution, we want all the features to be enabled. The GIF support is currently disabled by default (and can be enabled only by manually editing configure.cmd or generated configuration files). This is done so due to some licensing issues, which need to be investigated.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by dmik

According to ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF and ​http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw, the Unisys LZW patents expired in 2003-2004 which means that the GIF format (which makes use of this patented technology but is not patented itself) may be now freely used by everyone.

This means that we will simply enable GIF support in configure.cmd by default.

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by dmik

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Done in r184.

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