Re: LZW patented file left in .orig.tar source package?

To: halls@debian.org
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, dev@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: LZW patented file left in .orig.tar source package?
From: Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] 20021023.095848.74753944.wlandry@ucsd.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20021023094019.GA17721@shawn.gmx.de>
References: <[🔎] 20021023094019.GA17721@shawn.gmx.de>

Chris Halls <halls@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi debian-legal,
> 
> Can someone say whether I may leave a file that implements a patented
> algorithm (LZW compression for GIFs) in the source tarball for
> OpenOffice.org?  The file is not built or distributed - I have patched the
> build to use a dummy version of the class that does nothing [1].

You have to take it out of whatever Debian distributes.  I can
download the the .orig.tar.gz file, so it can't be in that.  Even if
the .diff.gz takes it out.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu

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