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The Unisys connection

Posted Mar 24, 2004 0:35 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: The Unisys connection by corbet
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

And wasn't the patent only on the compression? I know there are supposedly
patent-free GIFs. If that is possible it seems like reading a GIF would not
be covered by the patent. So he would only have had to remove the GIF
writing support.

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