From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: xan2@ono.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:38:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223193806.GA5864@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312231207.53580.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Tue Dec 23, 2003 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I don't think GIF was ever "proprietary", but the l-z-w compression
> used was patented. The patent expired earlier this year. So gif is
> back.
The U.S. LZW patent expired June 20, 2003. The Canadian LZW
patent expiref July 7, 2004. The LZW patents in the United
Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy however are still active, and
will expire June 18, 2004. The Japanese LZW patent will expire
on June 20, 2004.
I vote for keeping the status quo for another 4 months....
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 15:20 [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? xan2
2003-12-23 16:16 ` Erik Mouw
2003-12-23 17:07 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-23 19:12 ` Remove superflous copy of logo in /Documentation John Bradford
2003-12-23 19:38 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2003-12-23 20:45 ` [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? Ian Hastie
2003-12-23 21:43 ` Edesio Costa e Silva
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2003-12-23 22:27 xan2
2003-12-26 17:48 ` Paulo Marques
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