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Subject: Re: ANN: WinAtChess diagrams

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:18:56 10/28/98

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On October 28, 1998 at 06:46:59, Peter Herttrich wrote:
>On October 28, 1998 at 05:32:51, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>GIF contains LZW and is patented.  It is illegal to use it without paying a
>>royalty.  See additional remarks in c.l.c.c
>
>Like i know only if u use it in a commercial way.
Seems to me they only have to demonstrate harm.  They could say they lost
royalties to some competitive commercial tool because of this free one.  PNG is
better too, for two reasons. 1.  It compresses better and is royalty free.  2.
What better way to compress PGN than with a permutation of its own letters?



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