 KoolMoeAw ManPremium
join:2001-02-14
Annapolis, MD | reply to SRFireside
Re: There is some sanity in the world!! It depended on the software you used to do it.
If you wrote your own software to covert images and apply the LZW compression and you did not license that compression technology from Unisys, then yes, you were in violation of the patent.
If you used someone else's software to do that, then you're kinda in violation, but ultimately the one to 'go after' would be the company that provided/wrote that software.
If you used third-party software that did license that compression scheme, then the gifs you create are fine.
Unisys WAS uptight about it - this is one of the biggest patent arguments of the past decade. It cause all sorts of geek protesting on using gifs. Unisys actively sued companies who made gif creation/conversion software without licensing.
But regardless, the patent is expired anyway, so however you wanna do it...
KM
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