RE: unisys and licensing

> 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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