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Re: death of the gif format



John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

> peter karlsson writes:
> > Or why not create them in a country where Unisys' patent isn't valid?
> > Over here (in the civilised world :) ), software patents are not allowed
> > by law, so I have no problems with GIF whatsoever.
> 
> Could someone over there set up a compression server?

A little late, but this would still result in harassment from Unisys
lawyers - even though the compression is perfectly legal, hosting said 
images from a US server is considered (at least by the Unisys lawyers) 
to be contributory infringement.


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