Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:12:07 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003230410200.30565-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200003222119.OAA20201@usr07.primenet.com>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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