Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format

[Tom Chance]

We will also be accepting GIFs (begrudgingly) and
converting them into pngs. I think that for now we
have to allow both of these formats, and convert them.
But we should encourage people to try and either just
copy and paste it into the submission form, or save it
as a different filetype.

Tom Chance


--- Mike Warren <address@hidden> wrote: > Tom
Chance <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > M$ cannot sue us for taking people's Word files,
> converting their
> > contents into plain text, and discarding the Word
> files.
> 
> They can prevent people from writing converters for
> Word files,
> including us. They've done this already with ASF:
> 
>   http://www.advogato.com/article/101.html
> 
> > They have no rights over the content.
> 
> True. Sort of: they can prevent you from legally
> converting the
> content to anything else...
> 
> > Just as we can make a text file with Notepad (not
> free) and send in
> > a text file (totally free) we can let people make
> something with M$
> > Word (not free) and we can convert it into a text
> file (totally
> > free).
> 
> And that is what people who want to write articles
> with Word should
> do.
> 
> > However Unysis can sue us for using GIFs and not
> paying them, or
> > giving them royalties, for the use. So we cannot
> use GIFs.
> 
> Then why not just use GIFs until Unisys finds out
> and decides to sue
> us, as you suggest for Word? After all, Unisys has
> no claim over the
> content of the GIF...
> 
> The real reason that GIFs are not used is because it
> is illegal to
> produce a free encoder or decoder for GIF files; the
> format is
> non-free. Similarly, Microsoft claims ownership over
> their file
> formats.
> 
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