Pfft. Where did the idea of getting charged to use the gif format come from. Any charges will be on the application makers such as Adobe etc not the end user. It's the same situation with mp3. It is the OS and media player makers that have to cough up the money.
> -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Ian Clarke > Sent: 31 January 2003 19:02 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Fwd: Some images in updated templates not > rendering correctly in Netscape > > > We also happen to be required to obey the law of the land > > Which land? China perhaps? > > > and limit our > > liability to spurious, possibly malicious, but technically winnable > > lawsuits. > > Freenet does not contain a GIF encoder or decoder, thus we cannot be > sued no matter what over GIFs. Pretending that this GIF thing is > anything other than a political issue for us is disingenuous. Those who > donated to us did not donate to the "Burn All Gifs" project. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
