FreeLists / openbeostranslationkit / [openbeostranslationkit] Re: LZW Compression

["Doug Wilson" <doug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not a lawyer so don't quote me on this.

I believe you only need a license to be able to create GIFs.  If all you're
doing is reading a GIF, then you don't need a license.  I believe the same
thing is true with compressed TIFFs.  You can read 'em without a license,
but you can't write them.

dw

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[mailto:openbeostranslationkit-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Travis
Smith
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:15 AM
To: openbeostranslationkit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeostranslationkit] Re: LZW Compression


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Wilber" <wilber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > This may not be an important issue right away, but don't we need a
> > license from Unisys in order to use the GIF image format
> and the TIFF
> > image format with LZW compression?
> It isn't an important issue, since we're not writing
> translators :) we're just writing the kit to handle/load
> translators. AFAIK, Be didn't even supply a gif en/decoder?
I don't think they did, and that was the first thing I was going to look
into :) I don't remember seeing one, but then again I didn't look that
closely.
>
> /Brian Matzon
>