LZW patent expired

Stijn Hoop stijn at win.tue.nl
Fri Jun 20 06:15:39 PDT 2003


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.

--Stijn

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