www/philosophy gif.html

[John Sullivan]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     John Sullivan <johnsu01>        06/10/10 22:57:52

Modified files:
        philosophy     : gif.html 

Log message:
        Add note about GIFs being ok now, update FSF link.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/gif.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.33&r2=1.34

Patches:
Index: gif.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/gif.html,v
retrieving revision 1.33
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -b -r1.33 -r1.34
--- gif.html    6 Oct 2006 17:40:35 -0000       1.33
+++ gif.html    10 Oct 2006 22:57:49 -0000      1.34
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 
     <h2>Why There Are No GIF files on GNU Web Pages</h2>
 
+    <p><strong>While this story is an historical illustration of the danger of
+    software patents, these particular patents are now no longer a concern. As
+    of the end of September 2006, it is now safe again to use static
+    GIFs.</strong></p>
+
     <p>
       There are no GIFs on the GNU web site because of the patents (Unisys
       and IBM) covering the LZW compression algorithm which is used in
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@
     </p>
 
     <p>
-      The <a href="/fsf/fsf.html">Free Software Foundation</a> is a
+      The <a href="http://www.fsf.org";>Free Software Foundation</a> is a
       non-commercial, non-profit organization, so strictly speaking the
       income from our sales of <a href="http://order.fsf.org/";>CD-ROMs</a>
       is not "profit".  Perhaps this means we could include a GIF
@@ -253,7 +258,7 @@
       </p>
 
       <p>
-        Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+        Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, 
Inc.,
         51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA
         <br />
         Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
@@ -264,7 +269,7 @@
       <p>
         Updated:
         <!-- timestamp start -->
-        $Date: 2006/10/06 17:40:35 $ $Author: mattl $
+        $Date: 2006/10/10 22:57:49 $ $Author: johnsu01 $
         <!-- timestamp end -->
       </p>
     </div>