On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 00:54 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote: > 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg#Potential_patent_issues Given the current state of affairs, I don't see a problem here. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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