On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:45:41 +0200
Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, for the record: From the two responds I got, it seems to me that
> the only way to make portable animations and not infringe copyrights

You mean Patents -- nobody "infringed" the copyright of anyone with the
GIF issue, just bludy patents.

> is to create uncompressed gifs.

IIRC even this won't help as the GIF format itself was patented
by Compuserve (while its compression by Unisys). This stupid
thing will bite us for a good time. We should kill these technologies
while they are still young (until/if some patent reform takes place).

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