Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG?

[Edesio Costa e Silva]

IIRC only the *enconding* phase of LZW was patented. So we don't have a
problem here.

Edésio

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:45:28PM +0000, Ian Hastie wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 19:38, Erik Andersen wrote:
> >The LZW patents in the United
> > Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy however are still active, and
> > will expire June 18, 2004.
> 
> Are these patents enforceable in under current law?  I may well have the wrong 
> idea here, but I thought that the recent controversial EU legislation was 
> about to enabling this sort of patent.
> 
> -- 
> Ian.
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