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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:45:32 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Patent question, libtiff, LZW -- Attn: Corinna
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On Oct 11 20:14, Charles Wilson wrote:
> the fedora core 2 version of netpbm
> netpbm-10.19-7.src.rpm in
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/SRPMS/
> 
> both contain giftopnm and ppmtogif, which are LZW-enabled for both 
> decompression (giftopnm) and compression (ppmtogif).
> 
> So it seems that this is really a moot point.  Red Hat is already 
> distributing LZW-enabled code.

Then just go ahead.  What's good for Fedora is good for us, too.

Corinna

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