On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:43:50 +0200, Peter Gervai wrote:
Dunno about any problems with GIF *decoding*, but you
surely cannot *create*
compressed GIFs without paying.
Not quite true. You cannot create *LZW compressed* GIFs without paying a
royalty.
There was a library floating around that would create GIFs that do not
use LZW compression yet can be decoded by any standards-compliant GIF
decoder (the compression was not as good, though). But that's marginal.
Cheers,
Philip