Paul Elliott writes:
> On Friday, March 25, 2011 01:43:59 am Ben Finney wrote:
> > What I thought you were referring to was that the images were a
> > binary form and the “preferred form for making modifications” wasn't
> > included, hence making the source package non-free. Is that the case
> >
On Friday, March 25, 2011 01:43:59 am Ben Finney wrote:
> Paul Elliott writes:
> > Never mind, I found out that patent expired
>
> I didn't think you were referring to the Unisys patent on GIF. Yes, that
> patent has expired long ago (but GIF is still obsoleted by PNG, and I
> usually encoura
Holger Levsen writes:
> On Freitag, 25. März 2011, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What I thought you were referring to was that the images were a
> > binary form and the “preferred form for making modifications” wasn't
> > included, hence making the source package non-free. Is that the case
> > for this p
On Freitag, 25. März 2011, Ben Finney wrote:
> What I thought you were referring to was that the images were a binary
> form and the “preferred form for making modifications” wasn't included,
> hence making the source package non-free. Is that the case for this
> package?
I'd say (certain) .gif im
Paul Elliott writes:
> Never mind, I found out that patent expired
I didn't think you were referring to the Unisys patent on GIF. Yes, that
patent has expired long ago (but GIF is still obsoleted by PNG, and I
usually encourage upstream to replace them).
What I thought you were referring to
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Paul Elliott
wrote:
> Never mind, I found out that patent expired
Ah, the patent expired so long ago that I completely forgot it existed
and didn't put two and two together, sorry!
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On Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:00:32 pm Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Paul Elliott
>
> wrote:
> > My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I
> > delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my
> >
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Paul Elliott
wrote:
> My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I delete
> these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my pristine source,
> or must I resource?
Unless they are non-free or you are already repa
My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I delete
these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my pristine source,
or must I resource?
Thank You.
P.S. there are a lot of complicated rules to create a package.
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