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From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00

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Darrin Cardani <none@nospam.spam> wrote:
>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.

AFAIK (IANAL) a license is only needed to encode LZW. And the compression
gzip uses (LZ?) works better, and is not patent encumbered.

Ray
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From: jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: postscript copyrights
Date: 1999/03/02
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