[Ham-Linux] PNG files <--> GIF files conversions

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:23:25 -0600

* w3sz <[email protected]> [2003 Jan 18 17:32 -0600]:
> Thanks for the tips Maggie!
> 
> My website should now be gif-free except for some gif files generated by 
> Microsoft Power Point that I can't seem to get rid of and have the Power 
> Point Slide Show work.  I'll let Microsoft and Unysys fight that one out ;)

You should not be liable as MS has already (most probably) paid
the patent license fee for the software.  The license Unisys wishes to
impose is upon the authors of software that use LZW compression.  Users
of properly licensed software are not liable for the license fee either.
However, I cannot speak about the liability of using unlicensed software
that uses LZW compression here in the U.S.A.

That said, the way the patent was handled with a "bait and switch"
approach does not endear me to Unisys even though I think the patent
expires in several months.

73, de Nate >>

P.S. I am not a lawyer, so the above may be completely wrong.  :-)

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