Official Request: Image Standard for Fedora Project

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 00:54 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:02 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Thomas Chung (tchung at fedoraproject.org) 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.

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