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In article <none-ya02408000R0203990909430001@nntp.news.netcom.net>, 
none@nospam.spam says...
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>In article <36DBEA81.DC99B8FB@visual-design.com>, root
><caroli@visual-design.com> wrote:
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>> 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)?
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>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.

We give our OEMs the option of generating an `invalidaccess' error if a page 
description attempts to open an LZW filter.  I've never seen a real-world page 
description that uses LZW -- it may be possible to coax photoshop into 
producing such a file, but I've never tried....

More interesting these days is finding a patent-free way of doing colour 
managment or halftoning:-)

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