RE: unisys and licensing

Seems that the only issue to unisys should be where the current gif was
created. All you should need is a program, or service, which is
legal and which can re-compress your gifs before putting them onto
your site. Then I would think there would be nothing to worry about,
especially if that program puts it's own comment in the gif to prove
that it is legal.

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Peter Newton
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 5:09 PM
> To: Gary(at)BonhamDesigns.com
> Cc: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: unisys and licensing
> 
> 
> 
> Another twist in the saga came to mind when you mentioned the gif comment
> field and that is that if you go to netmechanic or many of the other
> validation services they offer a service to Downsize an image for you
> without too much loss of quality and they put a little message in the
> comment field to this effect. What software then created the 
> final gif? What
> happened to the original message if any?
> 
> OK now back to work on my cgi script
> 
> Peter Newton
> 
> 
> 
> original message
> 
> > How could they prove it?
> >
> >
> >Well, there's a comment field that may be in any gif. Many
> >applications use this to indicate that their product did
> >indeed produce that gif. In addition, I've seen some
> >comment fields that stated that the copy used was
> >unregistered! Now, hopefully any product that puts such
> >a comment in the gif would be licensed with unisys, but
> >who knows? Many products, however, put no indication at all
> >in the gif. Could be that the licensed program you use does
> >put in a comment, and that it cannot be easily removed, so
> >they could infer that gifs without the comment were NOT
> >produced with that product.
> >
> >Another suggestion: unless the number of gifs in your pages
> >are too many, just load each one into a licensed program that
> >you own, and re-save them. Then they truely WERE created with
> >that program. Just make sure that any previous comment field
> >isn't carried forth to the new gif.
> >
> >I suspect this would satisfy unisys, should they really take
> >the time to download and examine every one of your gifs.
> >
> >Gary
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

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