OpenMined <**Mail Free America**> wrote:
: LZW is still apparently in their source code, and one can
: enable it in the compilation, but the resultant program is legally subject
: to licensing requirements.  For example, if I have a webserver which serves
: up on-the-fly GIF images using my compilation of ImageMagik, I am infringing
: on the LZW patent.

  I couldn't care less. I have made a GIF reader library and I use GIFs in
my web page.
  The LZW patent, besides being idiotic, does not hold here, so I can do
whatever I want.

-- 
char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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