File talk:Twrbuild.gif

I imagine we have a few FSF/OSI cognoscenti amongst our admins (or at least among the Wikia admins), so, before you ask:

The discussion of image formats on our policy/copyright pages doesn't prohibit this. Other GIF files have been uploaded here.

IANAL, though I did look around on the web a little bit, and it appears as though those extremely broad copyright issues involving GIFs (which had Eric Raymond et al. up in arms a few years ago) have blown over anyway.

Ryan W 03:38, 13 Oct 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, I believe the patent on the LZW compression algorithm used in GIFs has expired. Bloodshedder 04:17, 13 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * The Unisys patent has expired internationally but IBM hold one in the US until '10 or something. It's only a problem if you were writing a program to generate GIFs; I don't think you need worry about files themselves. For such a small gif, you can just save it without compression. -- Jdowland 09:19, 13 Oct 2005 (UTC)