Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:24:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <200003230124.SAA28782@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003230410200.30565-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Mar 23, 2000 04:12:07 AM
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> > 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
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