The sperry patent is international.
http://www.cpe.surrey.ac.uk/support/faq/gif_lzw.htm
The funny part is the selfsame stuff that makes GIF viewers non-free is
blithely in gzip. Ah well, consistency has never been a hallmark of
patents WRT non-free.
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The funny part is the selfsame stuff that makes GIF viewers non-free is
blithely in gzip. Ah well, consistency has never been a hallmark of
patents WRT non-free.
Does Debian have any kind of policy on patents at all?
Some random observations and questions:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
Nothing in the DFSG seems to refer to patents, so I don't see how a
patent can make a program non-free in the DFSG sense. Also, the USA
isn't the only country in the world to have software patents
(there's also Japan), so non-us doesn't seem
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
The funny part is the selfsame stuff that makes GIF viewers non-free is
blithely in gzip. Ah well, consistency has never been a hallmark of
patents WRT non-free.
Does Debian have any kind of policy on patents at all?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nothing in the DFSG seems to refer to patents, so I don't see how a
patent can make a program non-free in the DFSG sense. Also, the USA
isn't the only country in the world to have software patents
(there's also Japan), so non-us doesn't seem very
On Thursday 30 Aug 2001 1:14 pm, Joseph Carter wrote:
Now maybe that's probably reaching a little bit given the fact that the
judges seem to be too easily swayed by lawyers who make more in a week
than some of us make in a year, but it's also reaching to say that laws
designed to keep other
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
Does Debian have any kind of policy on patents at all?
Debian's policy on patents has been to deal with them on a
case-by-case basis.
[1] It's not possible for any software vendor anywhere to
avoid infringing patents. That
On 29-Aug-01, 23:08 (CDT), John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The funny part is the selfsame stuff that makes GIF viewers non-free is
blithely in gzip. Ah well, consistency has never been a hallmark of
patents WRT non-free.
You're confused. There are plenty of GIF viewers in us/main. The
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