Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif "Although the Unisys gif patents have expired and the IBM ones will expire in the near future [snip...] The latest expiration date of the GIF-related patents will most probably be Friday, August 11, 2006 [1]." I believe it is the US IBM patent that expires on 11 August 2006. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
