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Re: GIF licensing
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lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
Date: 
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 01:01:58 GMT
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  Re: GIF licensing
 
(...) 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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