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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:14:43 -0400
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Image patents
Message-ID:  <20040426111443.389e182b@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20040426115648.GA10877@submonkey.net>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:56:48 +0100
Ceri Davies <ceri@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> This is really starting to annoy me now.
> See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040424232421417.
> 
> I'd really like to convert everything in www/en/gifs/ to a .png and
> commit the diff at http://people.freebsd.org/~ceri/gif_diff.
> 
> Cons are that we lose animated gifs (such as powerani.gif) and some
> images with transparency have lost it - see
> http://shrike.submonkey.net/~setantae/gifs/ for the old and new, but
> this is just from a pass through "{jpeg,gif}topnm | pnmtopng" so could
> possibly be solved.
> 
> Objections, comments, suggestions on how to do it better and offers to
> do it kindly accepted.

My vote:  Yes, go for it.

Sorry, but I'm much too busy for another project.  :(

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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