Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software
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- Subject: Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software
- From: Eike Sauer <eikes@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:12:48 +0100
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- References: <R5zL.829.23@gated-at.bofh.it> <R5zL.829.25@gated-at.bofh.it> <R5zL.829.27@gated-at.bofh.it> <R5zL.829.29@gated-at.bofh.it> <R5zL.829.31@gated-at.bofh.it> <R5zM.829.33@gated-at.bofh.it> <R5zL.829.21@gated-at.bofh.it> <R6ch.YK.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
Mathieu Roy schrieb:
> 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.
Neither GIF nor LZW is software, though.
The patent is about the LZW compression algorithm.
Ciao,
Eike
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