I have had to communicate with Unisys on this matter in regards to
realtime generation of raster maps on the server, and Kyle is spot on.
No problem with static content. However, running LZW code on the server
is a problem. I have received mail from Unisys suggesting that USD
500,000 would be a good start for prepayment on a license that would
enable us to provide this capability in a server product! GO png!
Mark
Kyle Barrow wrote:
> On the content production side, if you're assembling you GIF content
> with something like Photoshop, you're covered as Adobe paid up long ago.
>
> A lot trickier if you assemble GIF content dynamically on the server as
> UNISYS licensing issues have lead to GIF support (or LZW compression at
> the very least) being dropped from many server technologies.
>
> Kyle
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> 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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