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Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:36:38 +0800
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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To: lambretta@inet.uni2.dk
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Subject: Re: Comments on the design...
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lambretta@inet.uni2.dk wrote:

> Quoting "Jonathan M. Hollin" <netmaster@digital-word.com>:

>>Furthermore, I don't think we should be using images for these widgets:
>>GIF's are unacceptable for licensing reasons, JPEG's are no good
>>because
>>transparency is required (in case the template changes, or the widgets
>>are moved onto a non-white background), PNG's are no good because
>>they're not fully supported across platforms.
>>
> 
> 
> please excuse my ignorance but can someone please explain the copyright problem 
> with using gifs. are we talking web or printed stuff or what? is it really a 
> problem?


http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
http://www.unisys.com/unisys/lzw/
and zillions more, hint search google for gif and copyright


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