Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1

2005-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Brian Dessent wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: Are there still countries left, in which this patent has not yet expired? The unisys patent has expired in most major countries. There is still an IBM patent that is valid until sometime in 2006. [snip] I think there has already been discussion abou

Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Luke Kendall wrote: > Are there still countries left, in which this patent has not yet > expired? The unisys patent has expired in most major countries. There is still an IBM patent that is valid until sometime in 2006. I think that most people believe that IBM would never enforce this patent a

Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1

2005-11-09 Thread Luke Kendall
On 5 Nov, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** libungif-4.1.4-1 > +++ libungif4-4.1.4-1 (NEW) > > Libungif is a library for manipulating GIF files, without the > patent-encumbered LZW compression code. Are th