[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues

["Sam BC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski


> > 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.
>
I tend to agree - you cannot sue someone for something because they cannot
prove they didn't do it, you have to prove that they did!


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