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From: |
Matt Lee |
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Subject: |
www/philosophy gif.html |
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Date: |
Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:40:37 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Matt Lee <mattl> 06/10/06 17:40:37
Modified files:
philosophy : gif.html
Log message:
Templated!
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/gif.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.32&r2=1.33
Patches:
Index: gif.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/gif.html,v
retrieving revision 1.32
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -b -r1.32 -r1.33
--- gif.html 30 Aug 2006 07:33:49 -0000 1.32
+++ gif.html 6 Oct 2006 17:40:35 -0000 1.33
@@ -1,30 +1,9 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
-
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
- <head>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
<title>Why There Are No GIF files on GNU Web Pages</title>
- <meta http-equiv="content-type" content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gnu.css" />
- <link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"; />
- </head>
- <!-- This document is in XML, and xhtml 1.0 -->
- <!-- Please make sure to properly nest your tags -->
- <!-- and ensure that your final document validates -->
- <!-- consistent with W3C xhtml 1.0 and CSS standards -->
- <!-- See validator.w3.org -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
- <body>
- <p>
- <a href="#translations">Translations</a> of this page
- </p>
- <h3>Why There Are No GIF files on GNU Web Pages</h3>
- <p>
- <a href="/graphics/philosophicalgnu.html"><img
src="/graphics/philosophical-gnu-sm.jpg" alt=" [image of a Philosophical Gnu] "
/></a>
- </p>
- <hr />
+ <h2>Why There Are No GIF files on GNU Web Pages</h2>
<p>
There are no GIFs on the GNU web site because of the patents (Unisys
@@ -61,9 +40,8 @@
the matter in 1995:
</p>
- <blockquote>
<p>
- <strong>Unisys does not require licensing, or fees to be paid,
+ <q>Unisys does not require licensing, or fees to be paid,
for non-commercial, non-profit GIF-based applications, including
those for use on the on-line services. Concerning developers of
software for the Internet network, the same principle applies.
@@ -71,9 +49,8 @@
producing versions of software products for the Internet prior to
1995. The company does not require licensing, or fees to be paid
for non-commercial, non-profit offerings on the Internet, including
- "Freeware".</strong>
+ "Freeware".</q>
</p>
- </blockquote>
<p>
Unfortunately, this doesn't permit
@@ -150,18 +127,16 @@
patent:
</p>
- <blockquote>
<p>
- <strong>Unisys has frequently been asked whether a Unisys license
+ <q>Unisys has frequently been asked whether a Unisys license
is required in order to use LZW software obtained by downloading
from the Internet or from other sources. The answer is simple. In
all cases, a written license agreement or statement signed by an
authorized Unisys representative is required from Unisys for all
use, sale or distribution of any software (including so-called
"freeware") and/or hardware providing LZW conversion capability
- (for example, downloaded software). </strong>
+ (for example, downloaded software). </q>
</p>
- </blockquote>
<p>
With this statement, Unisys is trying to take back what they said
@@ -242,10 +217,9 @@
website devoted to discouraging the use of GIF files on your website.
</p>
- <hr />
- <p> Footnote:
- <br />
- <a href="#returnnote" id="venuenote">1.</a> We were able to search the
+ <h3>Footnote:</h3>
+
+ <p><a href="#returnnote" id="venuenote">1.</a> We were able to search the
patent databases of the USA, Canada, Japan, and the European Union. The
Unisys patent expired on 20 June 2003 in the USA, in Europe it
expired on 18 June 2004, in Japan the patent expired on 20 June
@@ -253,56 +227,13 @@
patent expired 11 August 2006, The Software Freedom Law Center says that
after 1 October 2006, there will be no significant patent claims
interfering with employment of the GIF format.</p>
- <hr />
- <h4><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Other Texts to Read</a></h4>
-
- <!-- All pages on the GNU web server should have the section about -->
- <!-- verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking -->
- <!-- with the webmasters first. -->
- <!-- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document
-->
- <!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." -->
-
- <p style="font-size: 10pt;">
- <a id="translations"></a>
- <b>Translations of this page</b>:<br />
-
- <!-- Please keep this list alphabetical, and in the original -->
- <!-- language if possible, otherwise default to English -->
- <!-- If you do not have it English, please comment what the -->
- <!-- English is. If you add a new language here, please -->
- <!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
- <!-- - in /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
- <!-- - in /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
- <!-- one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
- <!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias
-->
- <!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
- <!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus
-->
- <!-- http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm -->
+ </div>
- [
- <a href="/philosophy/gif.ca.html">Català</a> <!-- Catalan -->
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.html">English</a>
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.de.html">Deutsch</a> <!-- German -->
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.es.html">Español</a> <!-- Spanish -->
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.fr.html">Français</a> <!-- French -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
- <!-- Japanese -->
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.ja.html">日本語</a>
+ <div id="footer">
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.ko.html">한국어</a><!--
Korean -->
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.pl.html">Polski</a> <!-- Polish -->
- | <a href="/philosophy/gif.ro.html">Română</a> <!--
Romanian -->
-
- <!-- Russian/Russkij -->
- | <a
href="/philosophy/gif.ru.html">Русский</a>
- | <a
href="/philosophy/gif.sr.html">Српски</a>
<!-- Serbian -->
- ]
- </p>
- <div class="copyright">
- <p>
- Return to the <a href="/home.html">GNU Project home page</a>.
- </p>
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -333,9 +264,50 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
- $Date: 2006/08/30 07:33:49 $ $Author: wkotwica $
+ $Date: 2006/10/06 17:40:35 $ $Author: mattl $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
+
+
+ <div id="translations">
+ <h3>Translations of this page</h3>
+
+ <!-- Please keep this list alphabetical, and in the original -->
+ <!-- language if possible, otherwise default to English -->
+ <!-- If you do not have it English, please comment what the -->
+ <!-- English is. If you add a new language here, please -->
+ <!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+ <!-- - in /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+ <!-- - in /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
+ <!-- one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
+ <!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias
-->
+ <!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
+ <!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus
-->
+ <!-- http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm -->
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.ca.html">Català</a></li> <!--
Catalan -->
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.html">English</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.de.html">Deutsch</a></li> <!--
German -->
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.es.html">Español</a></li> <!--
Spanish -->
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.fr.html">Français</a></li> <!--
French -->
+
+ <!-- Japanese -->
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.ja.html">日本語</a></li>
+
+ <li><a
href="/philosophy/gif.ko.html">한국어</a></li><!-- Korean -->
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.pl.html">Polski</a></li> <!--
Polish -->
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.ro.html">Română</a></li>
<!-- Romanian -->
+
+ <!-- Russian/Russkij -->
+ <li><a
href="/philosophy/gif.ru.html">Русский</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/philosophy/gif.sr.html">Српски</a></li>
<!-- Serbian -->
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+
+</div>
+
</body>
</html>
- www/philosophy gif.html,
Matt Lee <=