On Jul 23, 2004, dragoran <dragoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The patent has expired. The Unisys patent did. AFAIK IBM patents covering the GIF format are still valid for a few years. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}