I believe that the UNISYS GIF patent has expired. On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:55, Benedykt P. Barszcz wrote:
Hi Group,
Is it legal to include gifs in Koha?
GIF format is patented by UNISYS. Benedict
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I think it has expired in the U.S., but has not expired yet in some other countries. A bit of googling found http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html which says the patent won't expire in my country until 7 July this year. In article <1077833084.30024.2.camel@localhost>, Mike Hansen <mwhansen@hmc.edu> wrote:
I believe that the UNISYS GIF patent has expired.
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:55, Benedykt P. Barszcz wrote:
Hi Group,
Is it legal to include gifs in Koha?
GIF format is patented by UNISYS. Benedict
-- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@ieee.org>
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