Peter, I checked their site recently and came away with the belief that the
license was a flat $5000 for software vendors, and a different arrangement
for websites which serve software-generated GIFs.   I saw no mechanism by
which they would license anything for a few dollars.

Wish I was wrong about that, but that's the way it seems.

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>
> Unisys doesn't care whether the licence is payed by the vendor of
> the software or the user. For commercial software, the vendor pays
> some amount for every copy sold, so the user doesn't have to pay. For
> software distributed for free, obviously the programmer can't pay some
> fee to Unisys for every download, so theoretically the user has to pay.
>
> BTW, some time ago I looked up the fee on Unisys home page. It was
> pretty low (a few dollars at most), and I considered actually paying it
> (although I live in a country where to my knowledge LZW isn't patented)
> - handling costs for a single user licensing a single copy of a single
> program would definitely cost them more than they earn - imagine a few
> hundred thousand people from all over the world inquiring how they can
> pay, sending them the money in strange ways, and Unisys loses 100 bucks
> on each transaction ;->
>
> hp
>
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