At 11:11 +0100 1999-12-04, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:48:55PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> - AFAIK, the patent issues on GIF only apply to certain countries, and >> does not apply to me ;-) > >You are wrong. These prograws are in non-free because American >authors licensed them for non-commercial use.
No they haven't, unisys grants a free for non-commercial use license for "freeware" for no cost only if it's asked for, but this was not widely understood and thus most authors never asked. The reason they're in non-free is due to the definition of non-free in policy. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
