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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
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	from never@nevermind.kiev.ua on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:40:39PM +0300
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Subject: Re: LZW patent expired
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:40:39PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%5C'4,558,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302
> 
> So we may start removing WITH_*_LZW_* knobs in ports.
> 

Only the US patent expired, the European and the Japanese patents will
not expire until sometime in 2004.