LZW and legal stuff

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:55:53AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 06:19 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > LZW patent is no longer valid, according to Unisys themselves.
> > What are the chances (I guess lawyers need to get involved etc.) of  
> > using LZW packages with Fedora?
> > 
> > For example - giflib, lzw compression kit for libtiff, etc.
> 
> Is this the same patent that covers isdn_lzscomp?

No.