In article <3dbd5329@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>> No, the official answer can only be that the POV-Team is not aware of any
>> patents infringed by POV-Ray.
>
>   GIF...

POV-Ray does not support GIF/TIFF LZW compression.  There is no evidence
that the existing patent for LZW compression does actually cover
decompression other than the intentionally vague statements of the LZW
compression patent holder.

    Thorsten

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