From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262789AbTLWW3H (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:29:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262790AbTLWW3H (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:29:07 -0500 Received: from [62.42.230.12] ([62.42.230.12]:13987 "EHLO mta02.onolab.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262789AbTLWW3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:29:04 -0500 From: To: andersen@codepoet.org Cc: Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1b93041b9c9f.1b9c9f1b9304@ono.com> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:27:01 +0100 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: es Subject: Re: Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? X-Accept-Language: es X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Andersen >>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.