On 5/22/07, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:02 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Thomas Chung (tchung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > This is an official request for Fedora Project Board Meeting Agenda. > > > > Agenda: Image Standard for Fedora Project. > > > > Background: Fedora Websites Team, Fedora Arts Team and Fedora > > Infrastructure Team were discussing which image format is appropriate > > standard for Fedora Project. Thomas Chung believes PNG is the best > > format since it's patent-free according to FSF. Toshio Kuratomi > > believes JPEG is also patent-free format and it should not be banned > > from using it. > > Why does it matter? Use what's appropriate for the image in question. +1, besides which I'm not sure this needs to be elevated to the Board unless these groups can't come to an agreement/good answer themselves.
This is a matter of legal issue which we can't seem to agree upon since we don't know for sure if JPEG is "patent-free" format or it's appropriate to use on Fedora Project. Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
