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Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format


From: Imran Ghory
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:21:02 -0000

On 29 Jan 2001, at 12:44, Mike Warren wrote:

> Gareth Owen <address@hidden> writes:
> > Mike Warren <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > > You misunderstand, you can use GIFs on your site if the software
> > > > you used to create the GIFs is licenced.
> 
> > > No such free software exists, nor can it as long as the patent
> > > stands.
> 
> > Or "wherever the patent stands" which is a key issue in the Unisys
> > patent.  The USPO does not create international law.
> 
> True. However, many international patent agreements make it insanely
> easy to get a patent which is valid in a lot of places. I'm not sure
> about the validity of the LZW patent (for example, Canada doesn't
> allow patenting of algorithms, AFAIK; if they do, I'm writing more
> letters to be MP ;)

Unisys claim ( http://www.unisys.com/unisys/lzw/ ) patents in,

United States (Patent No. 4,558,302), Japan (Japanese Patent Numbers 
2,123,602 and 2,610,084),Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United 
Kingdom.

Imran



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