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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues
From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 18:52:28 +0200 
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 10:23:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.

Unisys' tactics is plainly illegal.
Everyone who obeyed it is a sucker.
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