I am pretty sure DoCoMo holds a license from Unisys. At any
rate I know that Access, the company that makes the browser
software that displays GIF images on iMode handsets does
hold a license.
But producing and displaying GIF images are two separate
issues as I understand it, and a Unisys license is necessary
for both.
If content suppliers want to create GIF images they will be
responsible for negotiating their own contract. However,
most content suppliers will get this licence if they
purchase something like Adobe PhotoShop because Adobe has a
sub-licensing agreement with Unisys.
Christian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hardy" <pjh@bushcat.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) GIFs & Unisys
>
> A mundane question:
>
> The majority of current Docomo phones support GIF only,
but as far as I
> know, Docomo haven't purchased a system-wide license LZW
license from
> Unisys, which means content suppliers have to negotiate
licenses
> individually or assemble GIFs without LZW compression,
which makes them
> bigger, of course.
>
> Have I missed something here? And if people are creating
GIFs without
> the compression, what tool are they using?
>
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Received on Fri Mar 1 05:50:48 2002