[OZAPRS] APRS 300 baud scope

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:32:44AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > Better yet, use a more open and Internet-friendly file format.
> > PNG would be ideal, otherwise GIF. JPEG wouldn't work.
> 
> GIF is deprecated because of patent issues; and what's wrong with JPEG?

The US patent on GIF has expired
( http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bna-linuxiran/2003-06/msg00056.html );

JPEG just doesn't do well for line art, it's legally fine.
Thus PNG would be ideal.


Hamish
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