Hello Derick,

DR> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it.
Action of the patent on GIF was not expired ?

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html
The United States LZW patent expired on June 20th, 2003..
According to Unisys, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the 
counterpart patents in the
United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese 
counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004.



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