On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:58:28AM +1200, Matthew Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Could you please withdraw the nomarch package from the main upload queue. > This thing belongs in non-free.
If it violates a patent, shouldn't it be removed entirely? > Sorry about this. I have tried to be careful. Who would have thought that > such an obvious compression technique (Run Length Encoding - count number > of bytes in a row of same value, store count and byte value) is covered by > a software patent? Hm, don't SDL and OpenGL...errr, I mean, Mesa...both use RLE compression to accelerate some blits? Should we remove them too? I have to say that this patent is pretty despicable, even for a software patent. For people who didn't bother following the URL: "The first one covers run length encoding in its most primitive form: a length byte followed by the repeated byte." Daniel, who thinks he "invented" that one sometime in junior high -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | The Turtle Moves! | \------- Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org --------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
