RE: Unisys and .gif

The summary from Browserwatch is a little misleading and obviously intended
to be inflamatory but it is something that should be investigated.

My $0.02 worth is that if you carefully read the definitions on the UNYSIS
site anyone with a link exchange banner doesn't qualify anyway!

Also I think that the license agreement that comes with your graphic
software predates and therefore preempts this statement from UNYSIS.  Of
course, I'm not a lawyer :-)

Then again, if they (UNYSIS) do make life difficult maybe PNG will finally
come of age.

I for one will not lose any sleep over it.

Thanks for the post

Marty

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of webmaster(at)webzar.com
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 6:56 PM
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Unisys and .gif


From:

http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/news-990830-8.html


Summary:

"Word on the street is Unisys is requiring a $5,000.00 (US) fee from
websites that use the GIF file format for any image. This is regardless of
whether the software used to create the image is already licensed. Don't
believe it? Read it from the Unisys web site." (source
browserwatch.internet.com)


The Unisys site message:

http://corp2.unisys.com/LeadStory/lzw-license.html

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