Re: FLASH: FLASH (OT) giff's and the Law

[Richard McLean]

>"...if the GIFs on your Web site were created with software that is licensed

>by Unisys, you are fine. Nobody at Unisys is going to try to get $5000 or

>even $0.50 out of you. Period."

>Unisys says that most of the major graphic software vendors (e.g. Adobe,

>Corel, JASC, Macromedia, Microsoft, AOL/Netscape, et al) have licenses, so

>you can use those products to create your GIFs and use the GIFs with

>impunity.



The problem comes about when you use something like Gimp, GIFBuilder, 

or gd (server-side) to create your GIFs. These products (GNU, 

shareware, freeware) do not have Unisys licenses and, as such, 

neither do you.





kind regards,

Richard McLean


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