Re: Format of SHK files

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <375566ba.2225214@news>, Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:

>>LZW should sound familiar.  It is the compression format of GIF.
>
>And Unisys owns the patent on the LZW compression method so any
>programmer/company that uses it in a piece of software that is to be
>sold, needs to pay Unisys a license fee.  However, if the product is
>freeware or public domain, there is no fee.
>
>That's is how I remember it, at least.  I've been wrong before.  :)

Yep I heard that story once. I suspect that it's the how come that GS Shrinkit
came out as freeware as there was talk originally that it'd cost.
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