Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format

[Mike Warren]

Tom Chance <address@hidden> writes:

> The only way we can not use GIFs is to offer an alternative. We
> can't expect people to submit PNGs because few know about them and
> few will have software that will create them.

That is not the issue, but as has been pointed out the LZW patent
apparently doesn't cover software which only does decompression, so we
can accept GIFs and immediately convert them to PNGs (although IANAL).

> We could ask people to convert them into PNGs or JPEGs, but then
> what if they have a lot of pictures? It would be an awful lot of
> hassle for them.

Nobody said freedom was easy.

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