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I've heard about the GIF licensing fees and all that, but I've never
been told the answers to my questions, so I hope you can help me.
Actually, there's only one question:
Am I breaking the law when I make GIF images?
--Tobias
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| (...) Unisys holds a patent on the LZW compression algorythm. Common GIF implementations use this. There are implementations (like libungif) that use no compression and can be used freely. If you use software that creates a GIF, and uses LZW (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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