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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: >>>>>How to read a IMAGE file?(BMP, GIF)|||||||||
Date: 1999/09/28
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* Chuck Fry
| You should also get a license from Unisys.  They are aggressively
| enforcing their patent on the LZW compression used in the GIF encoding.

  I may be wrong on this, but please check to see whether they actually
  have a patent on the decompression -- last time I heard, they had only
  patented the compression part.  and this is fair by my standards.

#:Erik