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Re: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation

From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:30:31 -0600
Subject: Re: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation
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Igor Peshansky wrote:


Besides, isn't the Unisys patent still valid in some god-forsaken patent
office or something?

Nope, the last one expired three years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement

I seem to recall another high-profile software patent that just expired recently in the US but is still valid elsewhere, but I can't bring it to mind right now.

References:
- RE: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation
  - From: Dave Korn
- RE: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation
  - From: Igor Peshansky

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