gifencode (?s)Based on GIFENCODE.*Permission to use (?s)This code is loosely based on ppmtogif from the PBMPLUS distribution of Feb. 1991. That file contains the following copyright notice: \s+Based on GIFENCODE by David Rowley . \s+Lempel-Ziv compression based on "compress" by Spencer W. Thomas et al. \s+Copyright \(C\) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. \s+Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its \s+documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided \s+that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that \s+copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting \s+documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or \s+implied warranty. \s+We are also required to state that \s+"The Graphics Interchange Format\(c\) is the Copyright property of \s+CompuServe Incorporated. GIF\(sm\) is a Service Mark property of \s+CompuServe Incorporated."