Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME
* Jose M. Fdez (elzo@iespana.es) [030822 21:05]:
> Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF
> images is now back in the main Gimp package.
I hope this is not true, otherwise it would be a RC-bug.
According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html the unisys patent
| does not expire in most of Europe until 18 June 2004, in Japan until
| 20 June 2004 and in Canada until 7 July 2004.
(It is expired in the US.)
(That is the cause why ppmtogif will stay in netpbm-nonfree until 7
July 2004, so it's not in netpbm-free at sarge release.)
Cheers,
Andi
- netpbm maintainer -
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