Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:12859 misc.legal:20352 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!grebyn!dlawson From: dlawson@grebyn.com (Drew Lawson) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,misc.legal Subject: Re: GIF89a graphics format Message-ID: <21435@grebyn.com> Date: 15 Aug 90 11:46:28 GMT References: <17177@ucsd.Edu> Reply-To: dlawson@grebyn.UUCP (Drew Lawson) Followup-To: comp.graphics Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA Lines: 16 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. I had the same impression when glancing through it. They may own the term/name GIF, and they can prevent anyone from presenting an alternate GIF standard (like DoD and ada), but they have no control over applications implementing the standard. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Is life an illusion? | Drew Lawson | | Or does it just seem that way? | dlawson@grebyn.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+