From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262746AbTLWTnd (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:43:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262747AbTLWTnd (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:43:33 -0500 Received: from [62.42.230.12] ([62.42.230.12]:11582 "EHLO mta02.onolab.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262746AbTLWTnc (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:43:32 -0500 From: To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <19af2619c848.19c84819af26@ono.com> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:41:24 +0100 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: es Subject: RE: Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? X-Accept-Language: es X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote (23th, 2003 6:07 pm) >>Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:20, xan2@ono.com wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I believe that the tux logo located at > >linux-2.6.0/Documentation/logo.gif is the image that appears on the > >boot of the system if framebuffer is enabled, isn't it? > > > >In this cas, and also if it's only for documentation purpose, I > > think that we could change the propietary (and I think patented) > > format of this logo (gif) to anyone that were free (for example > > like PNG format [that has GPL licensed]). > > I don't think GIF was ever "proprietary", but the l-z-w compression > used was patented. The patent expired earlier this year. So gif > is > back. Sorry. I'm outdated. ;-) But, why not support a opensource format like PNG? And yes, now is expired but i think that we (the kernel users) used the gif format one year ago (I think that it's trivial to check that 2.4.x series used gif format. So they (patent registers of LZW) might demand the money that we did not pay to their. Regards, Xan.