LZW patent expired

[Andrey Chernov]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 15:14:42 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:05:55PM +0400, ?????? ?????? wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 14:59:36 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:40:39PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> > > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%5C'4,558,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302
> > > > 
> > > > So we may start removing WITH_*_LZW_* knobs in ports.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Only the US patent expired, the European and the Japanese patents will
> > > not expire until sometime in 2004.
> > 
> > Since we are USA-based, we can remove knobs immediately now and not wait
> > every other country.
> 
> And make it difficult for European users to install ports without patented
> technology they do not want to use?
> 
> I do not follow your logic.

Well, I reconsider my point a bit. Most convenient way will be autoenable
LZW know, if USA_RESIDENT == YES

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