From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 22 17:22: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5D437C275 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA08561; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:21:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAylaiSq; Wed Mar 22 18:21:05 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28782; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:24:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200003230124.SAA28782@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:24:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Mar 23, 2000 04:12:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > actually the only thing affected by the patent, in any case, > > since that is Unisys' (Terry Welch's, actually) contribution. > > The LZ (Lempel-Ziv) decoder will decode both, and is not patent > > protected. I would have to look it up, but I'm pretty sure > > that patent has expired, unless it was submerged (filed but not > > executed) prior to GIF images becoming common on the net. At > > I think I read that it's supposed to expire in 2003. Try 1999: http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US04558302__ Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message