Image patents

[Tom Rhodes]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:56:48 +0100
Ceri Davies <ceri at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> This is really starting to annoy me now.
> See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040424232421417.
> 
> I'd really like to convert everything in www/en/gifs/ to a .png and
> commit the diff at http://people.freebsd.org/~ceri/gif_diff.
> 
> Cons are that we lose animated gifs (such as powerani.gif) and some
> images with transparency have lost it - see
> http://shrike.submonkey.net/~setantae/gifs/ for the old and new, but
> this is just from a pass through "{jpeg,gif}topnm | pnmtopng" so could
> possibly be solved.
> 
> Objections, comments, suggestions on how to do it better and offers to
> do it kindly accepted.

My vote:  Yes, go for it.

Sorry, but I'm much too busy for another project.  :(

-- 
Tom Rhodes