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Re: libungif (Was: Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-01)
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> lapo wrote:
> > Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> >
> >> The author returned from a coma and it got a new home -
> >> http://libungif.sourceforge.net/ . 4.1.1 was released some days
> >> ago.
> >
> >
> > Thanks, i'll have time to take a look at it (and package it) probably in
> > the beginning of next week ^_^
>
> Speaking of which, I'm almost certain UNISYS's patent on LZW is now
> totally expired in most *MAJOR* countries. Can we please make libungif
> -> libgif?
Oh, but it's still in effect for minor places like the EU, Canada,
and Japan:
<http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/giflzw.php>
# The European patent EP0,129,439 covers four territories: Germany, France,
# Britain and Italy. It expires on the 18th June 2004.
# The Canadian patent CA1,223,965 expires on the 6th June 2004.
# The Japanese patents 2,123,602 and 2,610,084 expire on the 20th June 2004.
Give it 4 months.