Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software
Ben Gertzfield schrieb:
> As I mentioned in a response to the bug report, this is mostly a
> nonissue, since the LZW patent has expired in the US and I've merged
> the -nonfree package back into the main package in the unstable Debian
> distribution.
As far as I know(*), the patent is still valid in Europe and Japan
until mid 2004. Shouldn't this matter for an international project?
Ciao,
Eike
(*) German source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/atr-11.06.03-001/
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