Ben Gertzfield schrieb: > As I mentioned in a response to the bug report, this is mostly a > nonissue, since the LZW patent has expired in the US and I've merged > the -nonfree package back into the main package in the unstable Debian > distribution.
As far as I know(*), the patent is still valid in Europe and Japan
until mid 2004. Shouldn't this matter for an international project?
Ciao,
Eike
(*) German source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/atr-11.06.03-001/
