From: <xan2@ono.com>
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:27:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b93041b9c9f.1b9c9f1b9304@ono.com> (raw)
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
>>23th, 2003 8:38 pm
>>Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF
should be logo.PNG?
> [...]
> The U.S. LZW patent expired June 20, 2003. The Canadian LZW
> patent expiref July 7, 2004. The LZW patents in the United
> Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy however are still active, and
> will expire June 18, 2004. The Japanese LZW patent will expire
> on June 20, 2004.
>
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.
> I vote for keeping the status quo for another 4 months....
Why not consider to make a public votation (with public point of views
of the kernel hackers about it; obviously, vote is secret) about this?
Regards,
Xan.
next reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 22:29 UTC|newest]
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2003-12-23 22:27 xan2 [this message]
2003-12-26 17:48 ` Paulo Marques
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2003-12-23 19:41 xan2
2003-12-23 20:13 ` David Lang
2003-12-23 19:33 xan2
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