> The only problem is that the .GIF compression routine is copyright'ed, so
> you're theoretically supposed to pay whenever you use the compression
> routine. Search http://www.slashdot.org for details, I don't
> remember them
> clearly. At the same time, I highly doubt that the owner of the
> copyrights
> is going to search out every "illegal" user and prosecute.
>
Actually, I believe the end user doesn't pay, it's the software maker who
includes the compression algorithms which must pay.
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...