Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:48:27 +0000 | From | Paulo Marques <> | Subject | Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? |
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xan2@ono.com wrote: > ...
> > For this reason, because in many countries the patent is not expired and > that kernel is not _only_ for people of U.S., I think that we have to > change to PNG format rather than gif. >
> I vote for pass to PNG format as fast as we can.
You're not *listening*: only the encoding of the gif is encumbered by patents. The "decoding" of the gif is *not*.
So only the original author of the gif had to worry about using a software that had a license to generate GIF's (like photoshop, etc.). To use/decode the GIF there are no restrictions. AFAIK, there are absolutely no patent infrigments in distributing the logo.gif file.
Now that I've said this, I must say that I would also prefer a completely open-source format like PNG to be used :)
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