Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format

[Imran Ghory]

On 27 Jan 2001, at 17:30, Mike Warren wrote:

> "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > There is no reason why we can't use gif files as long as we don't
> > process (encode/decode) them.
> 
> The FSF would disagree.

Quoting the FSF gif policy (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html),

"Decoding GIFs is a different issue. The Unisys and IBM patents are both 
written in such a way that they do not apply to a program which can only 
uncompress LZW format and cannot compress. Therefore we can and will 
include support for displaying GIF files in GNU software."

Imran