Re: GIF encoding can be free?

1999-09-22 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:31:08AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Please take a look at this page: > http://www.danbbs.dk/~dino/whirlgif/disclaimer.html gif encoding can be free (use trivial compression: none, run-length, etc.. anything that predates LZW which can be fit into the gif en

Re: GIF encoding can be free?

1999-09-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:31:08 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >The author claims that this implementation is free from patent problems. I can't say I'm particularly impressed by it, it looks somewhat like an attempt to put the blame elsewhere and possibly a confusion of copyright and patents. I re

GIF encoding can be free?

1999-09-22 Thread John Goerzen
Please take a look at this page: http://www.danbbs.dk/~dino/whirlgif/disclaimer.html and let me know what you think. The author claims that this implementation is free from patent problems. -- John