Re: LZ: Compression program (and quest
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>It might be copyrighted then. I know that lasts longer. In any
>case the rights are definitly owned by Unisys. They won a court
>case against Compuserve about a year or 2 ago because they used
>it in their GIF format. They decided to be real easy about
>pricing but they'll sue anybody that uses it without permission
>in a minute. They have to to continue to protect their rights.
>I wouldn't consider using LZW without their permission, but I
>don't think it'll be that difficult to get permission.
It shouldn't be that hard, but why do we want it? I mean, it
is not made for compressing random data such as a program. I am
sure there are some other algorithms out there that are better.
-- Scott Rein
srein@rain.org
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