geep opened this issue on Nov 11, 2005 ยท 19 posts
jnelso99 posted Tue, 15 November 2005 at 2:15 PM
Attached Link: http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw
Unisys owns the patent to the LZW compression scheme used in GIF (and TIFF) files. Developers had to pay a licensing fee to Unisys in order to use GIF/LZW encoding/decoding in their applications. The patent expired last year world-wide, so GIF is now fair game, as far as I can tell.