Hello!
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:31:45PM -0000, Chris Haynes wrote:
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My understanding is:
1) The patent/licence applied only to the encoding of GIF, not to its decoding
IIRC right.
2) It was for the drawing package vendor (Coral etc.) to apply for a licence
IIRC half-right. Either the package vendor or the user (e.g. in the case
of open source software). So you could de facto not use the gimp, or
anything like that to make a gif image.
3) The Unisys patent is reported to have expired in the US, Canada and EU
See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
Usual IANAL proviso applies.
Dito.
And btw, using png more and more will perhaps eventually force M$ to
implement them right in IE.
Chris Haynes
Kind regards,
Hannah.