From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 8 15:46:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (racine.noos.net [212.198.2.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A07F37B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2723342 invoked by uid 0); 8 Oct 2001 22:46:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.71 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Oct 2001 22:46:50 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f98MkmY86139; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:46:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110082246.f98MkmY86139@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: docs/31109: replace gif images w/ png ones due to patent license In-Reply-To: To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:46:48 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Murray Stokely writes: > > > This looks good to me. Is there any reason not to convert all of our > > images to PNG? > > I have no reason, but I'll offer the next paragraph in case it matters > to anyone (and in case you don't all know it already :<). > > >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.) does it mean that softwares such as ImageMagic, netpbm and co. are properly-licensed ? frankly, I'm not really sure even after reading this : http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html make it short, only read the first paragraph of the "Post Scriptum" chapter ;^) Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message