Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:05:55 +0400 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LZW patent expired Message-ID: <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030620145936.B2774@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <20030620124038.GA99431@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620145936.B2774@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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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=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%5C'4,558,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302 > > > > So we may start removing WITH_*_LZW_* knobs in ports. > > > > Only the US patent expired, the European and the Japanese patents will > not expire until sometime in 2004. Since we are USA-based, we can remove knobs immediately now and not wait every other country.
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