Re: gif patents on GNU web pages

[Karl Berry]

    FYI, maintain.texi in gnulib still says:

Ah, thanks.

    Rather than removing the paragraph, I'd prefer if it explained that
    the patent expired, and that gif's are now OK.  Here is a strawman:

We should probably add something like ", but still not recommended; PNG
and JPEG are generally better.  See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html.";

I know there are potential issues are PNG and JPEG too, but I think the
statement is true as it stands, and could also be taken as "technically
better", which is fine :).  I don't think maintain.texi is the place for
an in-depth analysis.

I see @xref is being used wrongly, too.

I'll propose something like the above to rms soon, after giving anyone
else who cares a chance to weigh in.

Thanks,
k