On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > lapo wrote: > > Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > >> The author returned from a coma and it got a new home - > >> http://libungif.sourceforge.net/ . 4.1.1 was released some days > >> ago. > > > > > > Thanks, i'll have time to take a look at it (and package it) probably in > > the beginning of next week ^_^ > > Speaking of which, I'm almost certain UNISYS's patent on LZW is now > totally expired in most *MAJOR* countries. Can we please make libungif > -> libgif?
Oh, but it's still in effect for minor places like the EU, Canada, and Japan: <http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/giflzw.php> # The European patent EP0,129,439 covers four territories: Germany, France, # Britain and Italy. It expires on the 18th June 2004. # The Canadian patent CA1,223,965 expires on the 6th June 2004. # The Japanese patents 2,123,602 and 2,610,084 expire on the 20th June 2004. Give it 4 months.
