From: Edesio Costa e Silva <edesio@softaplic.com.br>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Edesio Costa e Silva <edesio@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:43:06 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223214306.GA13158@softaplic.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312232045.32535.ianh@iahastie.local.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 21:43 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 ` [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? Erik Andersen
2003-12-23 20:45 ` Ian Hastie
2003-12-23 21:43 ` Edesio Costa e Silva [this message]
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2003-12-23 22:27 xan2
2003-12-26 17:48 ` Paulo Marques
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