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From: Alex Murray <Alex.Murray@IntellitechInnovations.com>
To: "'tiff@olympiakos.com'" <tiff@olympiakos.com>
Subject: Royalties for LZW compression
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:54:13 -0500
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I heard a rumor that you can not use the LZW compresion in software that is going to be distributed commercially without out paying a royalty to the owners of the compression scheme.  Can anyone out there tell me if this is true or not.

Thanks

-=Alex=-



