[tei-council] small addition to comments on 14 Tables, Formulae, and Graphics

[Lou's Laptop]

Brett Zamir wrote:
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF , patents have expired 
> for GIF and for TIFF, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF , it seems 
> like it is only the specification that is copyrighted, so although you 
> do qualify the sentence, maybe these could still be added to the list 
> now?:
>
>    "With the exception of SMIL, CGM, JPEG, PNG, and SVG, all the 
> formats listed here are proprietary to a greater or lesser extent
>    and cannot therefore be regarded as standards in any meaningful 
> sense. They are however widely used by many different vendors.
>
> Brett
Definitely a sentence which is past its sell-by date. It's gone.

Lou

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