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From: Darrin Cardani
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00

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In article <36DBEA81.DC99B8FB@visual-design.com>, root
<caroli@visual-design.com> wrote:

> I plan to write a postscript-interpreter (like ghostview) for a
> commercial product. Does anybody know, if I have to expect any legal
> problems (eg. paying rents, copyright limitations)?

At the very least, you will be required to license the right to
encode/decode LZW compressed data from Unisys. Because you are working with
PostScript, it will cost you significantly more than it would otherwise.
That has been our experience, in any event.

Not a lawyer,
Darrin

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Darrin Cardani

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