Re: [offtopic] Re: CocaCola not really a secret
David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:48:43 -0400
>I don't claim to be a copyright expert, but AFAIK, while an individual
software
>package cannot be patented, an ALGORITHM can..... isn't that what the whole
big
>thing about GIF code being taken out of shareware programs several years
ago?
>
>Joe Malicki
Wrong. Algorithms are considered truth and cannot be patented. The GIF
patent was a method patent, patenting a method of compressing data, not an
algorithm for compressing data.
DS
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