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IANAL, LZW

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IANAL, LZW Branko Collin 19 Jun 14:16
  IANAL, LZW Tino Schwarze 19 Jun 15:38
   IANAL, LZW Marco Wessel 19 Jun 15:45
    IANAL, LZW Tino Schwarze 19 Jun 15:55
Branko Collin
2003-06-19 14:16:23 UTC (over 21 years ago)

IANAL, LZW

IANAL, but IIRC, today is the day the absurd (and perhaps illegally gained) LZW patent claim of Unisys runs out in the USA. Merkins can use GIF now.

Tino Schwarze
2003-06-19 15:38:56 UTC (over 21 years ago)

IANAL, LZW

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:

IANAL, but IIRC, today is the day the absurd (and perhaps illegally gained) LZW patent claim of Unisys runs out in the USA. Merkins can use GIF now.

Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan until then.

Bye, Tino.

Marco Wessel
2003-06-19 15:45:30 UTC (over 21 years ago)

IANAL, LZW

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tino Schwarze wrote:

Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan until then.

And here I thought software, ideas, and maths weren't patentable in Europe. Japan I don't know about, but I recall the US lobbying for such things being patentable there.

Tino Schwarze
2003-06-19 15:55:45 UTC (over 21 years ago)

IANAL, LZW

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote:

Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan until then.

And here I thought software, ideas, and maths weren't patentable in Europe.

That's what I thought too, but my source ( http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/atr-11.06.03-001/ - German only.) says that there _might_ be problems with GIF pictures (I cant translate the exact term IANAL either).

So, I think there's no problem in leaving everything in it's current state.

Bye, Tino.