From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 4 4: 9:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A026937B479 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 04:09:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id eA4C9DM16973 ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:09:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id NAA58206 ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:09:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:09:12 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any artists interested in doing a FreeBSD animated GIF banner? Message-ID: <20001104130912.B57240@lpt.ens.fr> References: <24460.973306717@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <24460.973306717@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:58:37PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard said on Nov 3, 2000 at 18:58:37: > > I'm interested in giving it a shot, but what about the GIF patent > > issue -- paying royalties to Unisys if one uses unlicensed software > > like the Gimp, and so on? > > That seems to have been a tempest in a teapot. I wouldn't particularly > worry about it since nobody else appears to be doing that in the banner > ads I'm seeing. Well, if you say so... I'll think about what sort of animation, etc. Any suggestions? Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message