On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andrew Sitnikov wrote:

> DR> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it.
> Action of the patent on GIF was not expired ?
>
> http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html
> The United States LZW patent expired on June 20th, 2003..
> According to Unisys, 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.

It's not July 7th yet, is it?

regards,
Derick

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