GIF support back in GD
Jeremy A. Rosengren
jeremy at rosengren.org
Fri Jul 23 18:28:56 UTC 2004
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2004, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
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>>The patent has expired.
>
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> The Unisys patent did. AFAIK IBM patents covering the GIF format are
> still valid for a few years.
>
I was wondering about this as well. By adding GIF back into GD, are the
GD folks just assuming that IBM won't go after their GIF patent(s)
because of their pro-OSS actions of late? Or did IBM say something
publicly that hasn't made its way around the net yet?
-- jeremy
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