Opened 19 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#21 closed task (fixed)
Enable the GIF support by default
| Reported by: | dmik | Owned by: | dmik |
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| 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.
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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.