Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:33:38 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Subject: Re: LZW patent expired Message-ID: <20030620133338.GA99024@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030620131442.GS24175@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030620124038.GA99431@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620145936.B2774@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru> <20030620131442.GS24175@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 15:14:42 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > 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=3DPTO1&Sect2=3DHITO= FF&d=3DPALL&p=3D1&u=3D/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=3D1&f=3DG&l=3D50&s1=3D%5C'4,5= 58,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=3DPN/4,558,302&RS=3DPN/4,558,302 > > > >=20 > > > > So we may start removing WITH_*_LZW_* knobs in ports. > > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Only the US patent expired, the European and the Japanese patents will > > > not expire until sometime in 2004. > >=20 > > Since we are USA-based, we can remove knobs immediately now and not wait > > every other country. >=20 > And make it difficult for European users to install ports without patented > technology they do not want to use? >=20 > I do not follow your logic. Well, I reconsider my point a bit. Most convenient way will be autoenable LZW know, if USA_RESIDENT =3D=3D YES --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPvMNMuJgpPLZnQjrAQHonwQAgNCoB+kdNxgb/sbsbl9gtjByAfXwK1KE s/hQ1oq6VprSsWnO8GuGa71cyLtm8rxpCLu9ShisRgBo+fjZvfKYQbpO9drOoBXr 97RvVbfxK+tLhJdKEMzzy6UXRIZpswNZCnJlTwKrkqg5jOLVHng+hPw4YGUFx2xm aWJDxKncIuI= =8Whz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--
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