From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262652AbTLWTgC (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:36:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262608AbTLWTgC (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:36:02 -0500 Received: from [62.42.230.12] ([62.42.230.12]:30911 "EHLO mta02.onolab.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262652AbTLWTgA (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:36:00 -0500 From: To: Erik Mouw Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1a6d6d1a9664.1a96641a6d6d@ono.com> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:33:56 +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 On 23th (2003, 17:16), Erik Mouw wrote: >>Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:20:07PM +0100, xan2@ono.com wrote: > > 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]). > > AFAIK the GIF patent (or rather: the LZW patent) expired a year > ago, so > I don't think it's an issue anymore. > > > Erik > Sorry, but I didn't know this notice until now. I'm one year outdated ;-) But anyway, do you not think that we can support the PNG format through kernel? It was designed thinking in opensource... [I believe] And, the patent could be expired one year ago, but I think that the kernel hackers use this format before this year: the kernel 2.4.23 has the logo.gif, so I think that we can check easyly that the series 2.4.x used (and uses) this format. Regards, Xan.