Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:12842 misc.legal:20329 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!halley!bei From: bei@halley.UUCP (Bob Izenberg) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,misc.legal Subject: Re: GIF89a graphics format Message-ID: <948@halley.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 90 17:44:51 GMT References: <17177@ucsd.Edu> Reply-To: bei@halley.UUCP (Bob Izenberg) Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX Lines: 15 In article sean@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney) writes: >While Compuserve holds a valid copyright for their GIF standard, and their >terms for its redistribution are extremely lenient, it seems to be >accompanied by a "license" that almost certainly holds no water legally. Let's >hope< that they're low key about licensing, lest we see a lawsuit over who owns the file extent GIF, as in PICTURE.GIF. And who owns the 8 character filename, 3 character extent format? Digital Research? Not Microsoft, I'd bet. DEC? Computer ambulance chasers, please pretend that you didn't see this! :-) -- Bob -- Bob Izenberg [ ] Tandem Computers, Inc. cs.utexas.edu!halley!bei [ ] 512 244 8837