Gürkan Sengün writes: > * Package name : gifsicle
#212193, if anyone is thinking this sounds vaguely familiar. > * URL : http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ Which reads, in part: "As of July 2004, all of Unisys's LZW/GIF patents have expired, but IBM has a remaining patent. There may be reason to believe that Gifsicle avoids these issues[1]; I have no position on that. Gifsicle is not distributed with a patent license. You are responsible for obtaining a license, deciding not to obtain a license..." [1] http://www.danbbs.dk/~dino/whirlgif/disclaimer.html Some commentary on this should certainly be included with your ITP. Even if you believe we can now distribute this code, you should probably discuss the matter on -legal first (I'm not going to make any claims about it here). P.S. Please use X-Debbugs-Cc:. -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
