... Patents¹

From LinuxToday, 16 May, 1999

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... Europe.²

The European Patent Office, used by many European countries, has issued quite a number of patents that affect software, which were presented as something other than software patents. The change now being considered would open the door to unlimited patenting of algorithms and software features, which would greatly increase the number of software patents issued.

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... LZW.³

Unisys issued a cleverly worded statement which is often taken to permit free software for making GIFs, but which I believe does not do so. I wrote to their legal department to ask for clarification and/or a change in the policy, but received no reply.

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