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Date: | Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:14:48 -0800 |
From: | Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> |
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Luke Kendall wrote: > Are there still countries left, in which this patent has not yet > expired? The unisys patent has expired in most major countries. There is still an IBM patent that is valid until sometime in 2006. I think that most people believe that IBM would never enforce this patent against a free software project, but in theory they could. From what I understand a lot of image libraries have long since reinstated the LZW code in shipping binaries but the FSF's official position is that it's still "not free enough" until the IBM patent expires and until it is confirmed that no other patents exist in countries where they have yet to search the patent databases, as detailed at <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html>. I think there has already been discussion about this in the cygwin list, but I don't remember what the resulting conclusion was in terms of what it means for cygwin packages. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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