From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 22 14:42:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3967B37C282 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 30961 invoked by uid 211); 22 Mar 2000 22:42:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Mar 2000 22:42:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:12:07 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Arun Sharma , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" In-Reply-To: <200003222119.OAA20201@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > actually the only thing affected by the patent, in any case, > since that is Unisys' (Terry Welch's, actually) contribution. > The LZ (Lempel-Ziv) decoder will decode both, and is not patent > protected. I would have to look it up, but I'm pretty sure > that patent has expired, unless it was submerged (filed but not > executed) prior to GIF images becoming common on the net. At I think I read that it's supposed to expire in 2003. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message