From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 8 13:15:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4977037B401; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 0B6744B65D; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:38 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/31109: replace gif images w/ png ones due to patent license Message-ID: <20011008131538.G22900@windriver.com> References: <200110080210.f982A2w72199@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from swear@blarg.net on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:52:59PM -0700 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message