[Pidgin] #2067: Support for Animated GIFs (MSN, AIM, ICQ, YAHOO) Buddy Icons

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#2067: Support for Animated GIFs (MSN, AIM, ICQ, YAHOO) Buddy Icons
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 Reporter:  praveenmarkandu  |        Owner:              
     Type:  task             |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:                   |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.0.2            |   Resolution:  wontfix     
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by datallah):

 Replying to [comment:23 Halan]:
 > you mention legal reasons here, but according to wikipedia the patent on
 gifs was lifted in 2004.
 I covered this in [#comment:12 one of my comments]. (bottom line it isn't
 Pidgin's job to support image formats)

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