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Re: GIF licensing
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lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
Date: 
Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:24:23 GMT
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TOBIAS.MOLLER@ihatespamTELIA.COM
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Um, well, I dunno if "GifBuilder" for Mac is a commercial program... But
since I haven't done it myself, then I guess it's OK.

BTW, how is Unisys going to track me down anyway?

--Tobias

Matthew Miller wrote:

Carsten Schmitz <casz@gmx.de> wrote:
one additionally point:
IMHO is the use of the GIF algorithms in non-commercial programs for free.

I don't think that's safe. Unisys' behavior on this point has been erratic.

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Matthew Miller                     --->                 mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                    --->              http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux            --->               http://linux.bu.edu/



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  Re: GIF licensing
 
(...) Not likely. But they could track down the shareware/freeware authors and harass them. (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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(...) I don't think that's safe. Unisys' behavior on this point has been erratic. (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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