Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:38 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@windriver.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/31109: replace gif images w/ png ones due to patent license Message-ID: <20011008131538.G22900@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <t9het9hpt0.et9@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:52:59PM -0700 References: <200110080210.f982A2w72199@freefall.freebsd.org> <t9het9hpt0.et9@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:52:59PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> >From what I've read (at trustworthy places like /.), the display of GIF
> images is explicitly permitted (without royalties) by the patent holder.
> It is only the sale of them or the sale of software that generates them
> (I forget which) which requires royalty payments. (Meaning that you're
> free to display GIFs you make with properly-licensed software.)
Technicalities like this still rub me the wrong way and I think we
should move as many of our images to PNG (especially the painless ones
that the submitter mentioned) as soon as possible. Do I want to spend
some time reading up about MNG and looking for animated GIF->MNG
software? Not really, but I have no problem running mogrify over some
static GIFs.
- Murray
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