docs/31109: replace gif images w/ png ones due to patent license
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com
Mon Jul 26 05:30:27 UTC 2004
The following reply was made to PR docs/31109; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com>
To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-docs at FreeBSD.org, clefevre at citeweb.net,
freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/31109: replace gif images w/ png ones due to patent license
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:22:41 -0700
On Jul 25, 2004, at 7:16 PM, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:59:11 -0700
> Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Given that the GIF patent has expired does this PR still need to be
>> open?
>
> Depends, are there any other or pending patents?
I don't know, but I figured that if it was good enough for gd to bring
back gif support things were ok.
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Joseph Scott
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
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