[Fedora-packaging] upstream source contains .gif files.

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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 at blackpatchpanel.com>  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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