Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4372AFA0.2030709@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:25:36 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1 References: <20051110015618.E286F83557@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <4372AD18.76DA8FF5@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <4372AD18.76DA8FF5@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Dessent wrote: > 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. [snip] > 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. See here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00611.html -- Chuck -- 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/