Posted by Travis Newbury on 06/07/05 12:44
kchayka wrote:
>>Has nobody mentioned legal issues with GIF format yet? I don't know if it's
>>Unisys, but somebody used to have some ownership.
> That patent expired (about a year ago?). There's rumor about a European
> version of that patent, but I don't know anything about it.
I thought the LZH patent used for compression of the gif was still
active until 2006 (in the US)
Not that it really matters anyway, I don't recall anyone ever being sued
over it...
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