On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:12:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>       The LZW patent (LZW is the compression algorithm used in GIFs) expired 
> a few years back (the patent in question was issued in December of 1985 and 
> patents only last 17 years) so its use in free (or otherwise) software is no 
> longer a concern or a problem.
You'll have to discuss this with the GNU people, this part of the website
is solely maintained by them.

Thanks,

Leslie

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