Re[2]: [Corona-users] GIF license?

[<fre...@ce...>]

Hello Chad,

  Yes the patent ended on the 20 of June, three days ago.

  But that was only the US Patent, in Europe and Japan there still are
  patents until next summer.

  From http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw :
  "The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian
  patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United
  Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the
  Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004."

  A bit of the problem is that here in Sweden there is technically no
  problem with LZW, but we cannot export any product to US, UK,
  France, Germany, Italy or Japan. And we must sign a licence
  agreement that we will not do that and account our sales to Unisys.

  Well, I'll just use Corona and be merry.

MVH Fredrik Bergstr=F6m / Cetevo AB=20

Thursday, May 22, 2003, 8:28:06 PM, you wrote:

CA> Corona does not use the patented LZW compression algorithm, so feel f=
ree to use=20
CA> Corona any way you like.

CA> Also, the LZW algorithm's patent expires this year, so pretty soon we=
 can all=20
CA> switch from libungif to libgif.  :)

CA> Chad

CA> Fredrik Bergstr=F6m wrote:
>> Hello corona-users,
>>=20
>>   Just wondering about the GIF license and if that limits the
>>   distribution of Corona based soft?
>>=20
>>   Thanks.
>>  =20
>> /Fredrik