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GIF Image Format Freed in October

by , 4:20 PM EDT, September 29th, 2006

On October 1, according to The Software Freedom Law Center, "there will be no significant patent claims interfering with employment of the GIF format," ending years of uncertainty brought about by Unisys' announced intention to enforce its patent on the format.

Free Software Magazine's Tony Mobily noted: "I personally don't think that IBM (the holder of the last GIF patent) would ever sue anybody for using GIF, especially after investing several billion dollars on GNU/Linux and showing their declared friendliness towards free software (which would be directly affected by a law suit)."

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