[Lazarus] about gif images

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Dec 21 18:22:19 CET 2008



On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, C Western wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > Do you have a fpimage reader for gif?
> >
> > Mattias
> >
> >   
> I put together a GIF reader based on fpimage a little while ago. I 
> hadn't offered it for lazarus as it was based rather heavily on a unit 
> in the RXLibrary, and I wasn't sure of the copyright. I note though that 
> the relevant RXGif unit is in turn based on a freeware C library. Can 
> anyone advise?

I suspect that the fpimage reading code is sufficiently different ?

Maybe you can put it under modified LGPL, but say that it is based
on ideas/code found in the RXGif unit ?

Michael.



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