Hello Ilia,

Thursday, June 19, 2003, 7:38:45 PM, you wrote:

IA> Jaakko,

IA> Thanks for the patch, but there are a few things you should be aware of. While 
IA> the LZW patent in US expires tomorrow, in Europe and possibly other parts of 
IA> the world the patent will still be in force for another year. Which means non 
IA> licensed users of GIF format in EU (I am guess you are in EU ;)) would be 
IA> violating the LZW patent.

Same for japan. And in germany there was already a case showing that
unisys will enforce their patent rights.

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