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:
> 
> 
>>The patent has expired.
> 
> 
> 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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