On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:29:35PM +0100, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On 03/25/2011 06:38 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > On Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:08:00 pm Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>>>> "PE" == Paul Elliott<pelliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> PE> My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I > >> PE> delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my > >> PE> pristine source, or must I resource? > >> > >> Why do you think you would need to do so? Are those files under a > >> license that is not acceptable for Fedora? > >> > > > > Nevermind, I found out that patent expired..... > > > Even before the patent expired, I don't think you were prohibited from > having GIF files, just to actually make use of them? > In particular, to write them. The reading of gif files was not under the unisys patent. -Toshio
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