LZW and legal stuff

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Jan 13 07:55:53 UTC 2005


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 LZW patent is no longer valid, according to Unisys themselves.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?

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