Hello! On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:24:02AM +0200, Marvin Massih wrote: > I have heard that there no longer is that annoying GIF patent, which > means that open-source software can now include GIF support again. There is only a patent on the LZW compression algorithm, you could freely generate uncompressed GIFs all the time. Furthermore from <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html>: |The Unisys patent expired on 20 June 2003 in the USA, in Europe it |expired on 18 June 2004, in Japan patent expired on 20 June 2004 and |in Canada until 7 July 2004. The U.S. IBM patent expires 11 August |2006, (we are still searching the databases of other countries). So it's maybe a little bit too early for any "celebrations". Cheers, Flo
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