Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format

[Imran Ghory]

On 27 Jan 2001, at 17:41, Mike Warren wrote:

> "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:
> > On 27 Jan 2001, at 12:26, Tom Chance wrote:
> 
> > > However Unysis can sue us for using GIFs and not paying them, or
> > > giving them royalties, for the use.
> 
> > You misunderstand, you can use GIFs on your site if the software you
> > used to create the GIFs is licenced.
> 
> No such free software exists, nor can it as long as the patent stands.

IIRC. Unisys do not require licenceing for software realesed pre-
1995, there must some free (as in beer) for it somewhere.

Also note that while we can convert gif->png we can't do png->gif, 
so if people submit gifs not only will the article be readable by a 
wider audience we can also easily convert them into png.

Incidently has FSF tried asking Unisys/IBM for a licence to allow 
GPLed software to encode gifs ?
(Especially seeing how much profit IBM have made from GPLed 
software)

Imran