Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software
Eike Sauer <eikes@cs.tu-berlin.de> a tapoté :
> 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?
????
As far I know, there are still no patent for software in Europe,
whatever an European institution know to fail to comply to European
rules may do.
--
Mathieu Roy
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