Re: Getting APNG support into libpng

Michael Drake <[email protected]> Tue, 18 May 2021 20:40:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.devel
Message-ID <CAEEy9dbERxRR69RX5nOSdNUm4=0AN-G-tVsg6wfF2H=EqQA7_w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 16:32, Chris Lilley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-05-05 23:42, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > The level of support in browsers is interesting.  I did not know that.
>
> > I have not read the patch.  What is the nature of the patch?  Is it
> > offered under a license compatible with the libpng license?
>
> My understanding is that there are multiple unofficial patches.

I believe the standard APNG patch is from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng-apng/

It's needed to build Firefox and you can see it applied in all sorts of
Linux distributions, e.g. Linux From Scratch[1], Debian[2], and
Arch[3].

1. https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libpng.html
2. https://sources.debian.org/patches/libpng1.6/1.6.37-3/libpng-1.6.37-apng.patch/
3. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=libpng-apng#n21

Best regards,
Michael