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LZW compression patent expired - algo is free finally

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Fri, 06/25/2004 - 16:10 — Christoph C. Cemper

The compression algo of the infamous GIF file format is now free for everyone… very fine… I remember a source code CD I bought 10 yrs ago for my new Mitsumi single-speed CD rom where that code was already on – in standard C of course… I used it for my mailbox compression tools, just like zillions of other programmers implemented it… well… now it's legal :-)

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