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