Wanna bet? Unisys strong-armed all developers of .GIF *readers* back in
1994 in to those contracts. I know. I was one of them. Both encoding
and decoding are covered by the patent. Any program that handles .GIF
files in ANY way (including, I might add, web browsers) is one that Unisys
claims patent protection and royalty payments upon.
At 03:22 PM 8/14/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:28:52AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> >and spend a few lawyer-years negotiating with Unisys over payments for use
> >of the Lempel-Ziv patents....
>
>No, the decompression is not restricted. Only the compression is.
>
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