LZW compression

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Jan 2 12:56:43 EST 2004


On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 07:49 AM, jbv wrote:

> Is LZW compression implemented in Rev ?

This page states that the patent is still in effect in some countries:

    http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw

The last one ends in June.

I get the impression that licensing constraints apply to software that 
compresses rather than decompresses.  That's no legal advice, just 
babbling.

Dar Scott



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