Coridon Henshaw <che### [at] sympaticoca> wrote:
: I'm surprised that Pov even tries to do anything with LZW TIFFs at all 
: given that the infamous Uni$y$ patent covers LZW in all forms, and that the 
: equally infamous polymorphic LZW usage terms now appear to require 
: royalties for decompression.

  POV-Ray supports gif reading, so it shouldn't be a big surprise.

: Suggestion to developers: have you people looked at http://www.libtiff.org 
: yet?  It might be a better option than the current POV TIFF loader.

  POV-Ray uses libtiff version 3.5.5.
  What did you think it used?

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