Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 10 07:12:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Luke Kendall wrote:
>>Are there still countries left, in which this patent has not yet
>>expired?
>
> The unisys patent has expired in most major countries. There is still
> an IBM patent that is valid until sometime in 2006.
[snip]
> I think there has already
> been discussion about this in the cygwin list, but I don't remember what
> the resulting conclusion was in terms of what it means for cygwin
> packages.
See here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00611.html
--
Chuck
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