Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:43:06 -0200 | From | Edesio Costa e Silva <> | Subject | Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? |
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IIRC only the *enconding* phase of LZW was patented. So we don't have a problem here.
Edésio
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:45:28PM +0000, Ian Hastie wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 19:38, Erik Andersen wrote: > >The LZW patents in the United > > Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy however are still active, and > > will expire June 18, 2004. > > Are these patents enforceable in under current law? I may well have the wrong > idea here, but I thought that the recent controversial EU legislation was > about to enabling this sort of patent. > > -- > Ian. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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