Steve wrote:
> Compuserve allowed gifs to be used for a long time without
>requiring registration or license fees.
Ahem, you mean "Unisys" not "Compuserve". Compuserve did invent the GIF
format, but they used the LZW algorithm that's owned by Unisys.
> The situation now, as I understand it, is that any program which
>incorporated gif while the format was allowed to be used at no cost
>is grandfathered-in to the provisions extant at that time.
Correct, see about.htm (under notes).
> AFAIK, It's only new programs wishing to include gif capability
>which must now pay the licensing fee... and I imagine also old
>programs wishing to upgrade.
Correct (weird how I missunderstood another mail from you, but I'll still
send it).
One could actually debate if the inclusion of animated GIFs into Arachne
broke the "rule".
//Bernie
