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From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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Subject: Re: LZW patent expired
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 14:59:36 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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.

Since we are USA-based, we can remove knobs immediately now and not wait
every other country.