Bug#67144: marked as done (Apache uses patented .gif files instead of free .png)
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From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>
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Subject: Apache uses patented .gif files instead of free .png
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There is one animated gif at /usr/share/apache/icons/debian/banner_a.gif,
but all other .gifs can be easily replaced by .png files.
.gif format has serious patent problems, is obsolete,
unable to support >8 bit colors, more complex interlacing nor transparency,
and compress worse than png.
In other words : .gif must die.
( visit www.burnallgifs.org for details )
On installed apache, this would work :
# apt-get install gif2png
# gif2png -O -s /usr/lib/pache/icons/*.gif
# gif2png -O -s /usr/lib/pache/icons/debian/button-1.gif
# gif2png -O -s /usr/lib/pache/icons/debian/banner_{h,v}.gif
# mv /etc/apache/srm.conf /etc/apache/srm.conf.old
# perl -pe 's/gif/png/' </etc/apache/srm.conf.old >/etc/apache/srm.conf
# mv /etc/apache-ssl/srm.conf /etc/apache-ssl/srm.conf.old
# perl -pe 's/gif/png/' </etc/apache-ssl/srm.conf.old >/etc/apache-ssl/srm.conf
On source code, probably not much more work would be needed.
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Hi,
last night the patent is expired all over the world. This bugs
have no meaning anymore.
I am closing them.
Fabio
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