On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:48:56AM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > GPL requires people to whom you redistribute a file > to be able to modify and redistribute it. > But they can't modify .gifs they got, because of > patent problems. > GPL says. that if, due to patent problems, you > can't meet all licence's critaria, you can't distribute > GPLed file at all.
They can modify and redistribute it. They can load it up in Photoshop, they can load it up in hexedit, they can load it up in a program that uses libungif, or they can edit it outside the United States. All entirely legal ways to edit the gif. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. - Dio, "Rock and Roll Children"