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Subject: [AD] legal stuff: patents
> did someone already check whether allegro not hurt any patent claims ?
Lots of things like GIF support aren't included in Allegro to avoid patent
claims, but it's almost impossible to avoid claims entirely. I'm sure some
company will probably show up someday claiming a patent on "a method of
displaying images on a display terminal" and sue every graphic library
programmer on earth....
Software patents are ludicrous.
--Chris