Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:44:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 11:02 am, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Fortunately, the lzw patent expires this coming June. Is that true? That would be really nice! (Finally, I can support buggy old browsers in my web application).

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-13 Thread Walter Landry
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Is there any way for xmedcon to become official without taking those parts mentioned above out of the source code (which neither the upstream author nor me would find very attractive). Nope. We

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-13 Thread Florian Weimer
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fortunately, the lzw patent expires this coming June. There is more than one LZW patent on the world. :-(

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:36:08PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please enlighten us how it is handled in packages like gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program or similiar? Any references to apply this

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Is there any way for xmedcon to become official without taking those parts mentioned above out of the source code (which neither the upstream author nor me would find very attractive). Nope. We cannot distribute software that doesn't have a

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-12 Thread Terry Hancock
On Monday 11 November 2002 11:02 am, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Fortunately, the lzw patent expires this coming June. Is that true? That would be really nice! (Finally, I can support buggy old browsers in my web application). No sarcasm -- lots of people are still using them, and I'd like to

question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-11 Thread Roland Marcus Rutschmann
Hi, I am using xmedcon (http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/) and did my first debian package with that. This package should be sponsored to become official soon. The package is generally gpl but has to parts with problems in it. 1) Code to create gif-files (with lzw compression). This is part of

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Roland! You wrote: Is there any way for xmedcon to become official without taking those parts mentioned above out of the source code (which neither the upstream author nor me would find very attractive). Nope. We cannot distribute software that doesn't have a proper license (the

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 11:59 AM, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Nope. We cannot distribute software that doesn't have a proper license (the Siemens stuff) or is affected by patents (the lzw stuff). Fortunately, the lzw patent expires this coming June.