From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject: Re: algorithm problem
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:59:29 -0500, "Damian Yerrick"
<die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:

>Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression is patented. Does your site mention that Unisys
>(http://www.unisys.com) will own United States patent 4,558,302 on LZW
>compression until at least the year 2003, or that Unisys won't let open
>source software use LZW compression, or that the Free Software Foundation
>(http://www.gnu.org) is boycotting GIF because GIF uses LZW compression and
>Unisys is not nice to copylefters who use the GNU General Public License?

It says this:

"Important note: The compression algorithm described in this
documented has been patented by the company called Unisys. Unisys
presently requires anyone who uses the algorithm in a commercial
application to purchase from them a license to do so."

I'll leave people to draw their own conclusions from that. Personally
I think it's a damn shame that companies are *allowed* to get patents
on this sort of thing.

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Davin.
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