From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#63531: [PATCH] View DICOM and Sixel images using image-convert Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:36:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87cz31fa0q.fsf@mailbox.org> <83h6scz1ma.fsf@gnu.org> <871qjgtc37.fsf@mailbox.org> <87ttwcrxc1.fsf@mailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15362"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 63531@debbugs.gnu.org To: Antero Mejr , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 22 20:38:03 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qudKt-0003ny-0m for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:36:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87ttwcrxc1.fsf@mailbox.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:272994 Archived-At: Antero Mejr via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" writes: >>> These patches add .dcm and .six to auto-mode-alist, so they can be >>> viewed with image-convert. The Six patch also adds SIX as an ImageMagick >>> type. >> >> Do we want to include their support in Emacs? AFAIU, these aren't >> free formats. > > I'm not an lawyer but to the best of my knowledge neither format has any > sort of licensing, trademark, or patent encumberances. > > DICOM is free to implement and view without licenses. The specification > is available online but the spec itself is copyright of NEMA. It's a > metadata wrapper over JPEG mainly. > > I think the Sixel "format" is more of a simple convention than a formal > specification with licenses, patents, etc. Implementations use the DEC > VT330 manual as a "spec" I guess. > >> And since supporting them boils down to customizing >> auto-mode-alist, why cannot users do that themselves? > > For usability I think it's good for things to (mostly) work out of the > box. Since these formats are not encumbered by patents and so on, I don't see any reason why we can't support them. It's always nice if stuff like that works OOTB. So I think we should install these patches.