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From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] Re: Unisys steps up with the LZW licensing
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:08:25 +0200 (CEST)

> I haven't seen this here before; it really is the nightmare software-patent
> scenario. Forwarded from Greg Roelofs, TBTF Irregular.

I find it rather gentle, compared to the normal use of software patents.
Unisys gives a non-exclusive license on equal terms to everyone, favoring
no monopolist and creating no interoperability programs. They ask website
managers and commercial vendors to pay. If you are a non-commercial
website manager and don't want to pay, you can easily use PNG or JPEG, as
you should have done long ago, according to RMS's exhortations on
www.gnu.org.

The only thing that is a bit scary about this is that they have kept
silent for so long. Without RMS's exhortations, we wouldn't have been
prepared for this at all.

-phm

[Patents] Re: Unisys steps up with the LZW licensing, PILCH Hartmut phm

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