Re: xsane-saving formats

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It isn't an issue of copyright; it's an issue of software patents, and
currently you *cannot* write a GIF encoder with LZW compression, free
or otherwise, without licensing LZW from Unisys.

> The best thing for xsane was to implement a netpbm interface; it is
> present on nearly all platforms today and you don't have to implement
> all this stuff again.
> ...

netpbm is far from universal; none of the commercial UNIX's I use
(IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX) include it.

Besides, GIF is hardly a good format for scanned images...

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