Am Sonntag, 30. Juli 2006 14:31 schrieb Per Jessen: > Thomas Hertweck wrote: > > Some of the buttons/banners on http://en.opensuse.org/Buttons are > > in GIF format. Is there a special reason for this? Why not PNG? I > > thought that according to the discussions on this list some time > > ago we wanted to avoid GIF files... > > I think the next/last GIF-related patent expires in a couple of > weeks, so although PNG is probably superior, perhaps it doesn't > matter much whether it's GIF or PNG?
Could you elaborate? At least the LZW patents, where the GIF format suffered from, expired in 2003/2004 IIRC. Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
