[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam BC (sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Will people not believe that the audio format itself is not under any patent
> problem, only encoding algorithms?????

You might not be aware of the GIF issue.

Last year, Unisys (which holds the patent on the LZW compression
algorithm used in most GIF files) started trying to enforce its patent.
Web sites which had GIF files on them either had to demonstrate that they
had produced the GIF files using licensed (read: commercial) software,
or cough up $5000 USD.

For more details, see <http://burnallgifs.org/>.

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