From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 06:34:02 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 95EA837B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A9B43FAF for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5KDXft0099080; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:33:41 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5KDXe7G099079; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:33:40 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:33:38 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov To: Stijn Hoop Message-ID: <20030620133338.GA99024@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030620124038.GA99431@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620145936.B2774@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru> <20030620131442.GS24175@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030620131442.GS24175@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i 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 13:34:02 -0000 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 15:14:42 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > 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=3DHITO= FF&d=3DPALL&p=3D1&u=3D/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=3D1&f=3DG&l=3D50&s1=3D%5C'4,5= 58,302%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. >=20 > And make it difficult for European users to install ports without patented > technology they do not want to use? >=20 > I do not follow your logic. Well, I reconsider my point a bit. Most convenient way will be autoenable LZW know, if USA_RESIDENT =3D=3D YES --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPvMNMuJgpPLZnQjrAQHonwQAgNCoB+kdNxgb/sbsbl9gtjByAfXwK1KE s/hQ1oq6VprSsWnO8GuGa71cyLtm8rxpCLu9ShisRgBo+fjZvfKYQbpO9drOoBXr 97RvVbfxK+tLhJdKEMzzy6UXRIZpswNZCnJlTwKrkqg5jOLVHng+hPw4YGUFx2xm aWJDxKncIuI= =8Whz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--