[Texmacs-dev] gif license

[David Allouche]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:50:45AM +0200, Michèle Garoche wrote:
> 
> So, that's a problem if they are gif files, as we are not supposed to 
> use gif files (license), are we? They were integrated last year by 

This is software patent problem over the LZW algorithm used in GIF.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw

BTW, the patent should expire this year.

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