GIFs in the tcm binary package

Benjamin Riefenstahl Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de
Mon Sep 29 11:32:00 GMT 2003


Hi Ronald,

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> I just downloaded the binary package and found a lot of GIF files in
> them. I was wondering whether they were LZW-compressed: `file'
> doesn't tell met and `mozilla' shows them properly, but I was
> worried anyway (patents in Europe...)

AFAIK, Unisys only wants license fees for software that creates GIF
files that use LZW.  Use and display of GIF files should not be a
problem.

But of course I am not layer and I may be missing something ...

benny



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