[Wikipedia-l] Re: Theora and video policy...

[Philip Newton]

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