From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 24 17:54:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECD037B732 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07691; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:53:45 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000324180332.041cf530@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:04:13 -0700 To: Rahul Siddharthan , Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <200003242018.NAA08726@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:17 PM 3/24/2000 , Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >Well I'm no lawyer (and know nothing of US law). > >But from what I can find from brief web searches, it seems that >before the change in patent law, the lifetime for "utility >patents" in the US was 17 years from date of issue, not 14 years. That's correct. IIRC, LZW hasn't expired yet but will soon. --Brett "Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message