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Re: Providing Logos



On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 07:22:21AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> Also, JPEG is designed for photographic images, solid color images or 
> line art tend to look like crap in JPEG format (have you seen what 
> happened to the white background of the old logo in JPEG format? it 
> ended up with a slight green tinge).
> 
> I personally don't see the big deal with using GIF, our logo was 
> likely made with non-free software anyway, and it is possible to 
> write GIFs without infringing on the LZW patent (libungif, libgd 1.3 
> or later).
It's principle.  How Free is debian going to be?  How unfree can Debian be
before it's called hypocritical?

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