From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 06:15:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD2237B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0967943FA3 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5KDEgKX093434; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:14:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5KDEgO2093433; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:14:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:14:42 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: ?????? ?????? Message-ID: <20030620131442.GS24175@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030620124038.GA99431@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620145936.B2774@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: Marius Strobl Subject: Re: LZW patent expired X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:15:39 -0000 --00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:05:55PM +0400, ?????? ?????? wrote: > 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=3DPTO1&Sect2=3DHITOFF= &d=3DPALL&p=3D1&u=3D/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=3D1&f=3DG&l=3D50&s1=3D%5C'4,558= ,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=3DPN/4,558,302&RS=3DPN/4,558,302 > > >=20 > > > So we may start removing WITH_*_LZW_* knobs in ports. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Only the US patent expired, the European and the Japanese patents will > > not expire until sometime in 2004. >=20 > Since we are USA-based, we can remove knobs immediately now and not wait > every other country. And make it difficult for European users to install ports without patented technology they do not want to use? I do not follow your logic. --Stijn --=20 Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" --00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+8wjCY3r/tLQmfWcRArNMAKCTVylmuyc/4W0QNwvimYIgkUvOewCfaUrv Y2vBLLkPrQVQXzBCpI+J9Iw= =cQZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5--