Posted by Richard Brooks on 06/08/05 11:32

Travis Newbury wrote:
> 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...
>
Knock! Knock!


Richard.

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