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From: Ian Hastie <ianh@iahastie.clara.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:45:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312232045.32535.ianh@iahastie.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031223193806.GA5864@codepoet.org>

On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 19:38, Erik Andersen wrote:
>The LZW patents in the United
> Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy however are still active, and
> will expire June 18, 2004.

Are these patents enforceable in under current law?  I may well have the wrong 
idea here, but I thought that the recent controversial EU legislation was 
about to enabling this sort of patent.

-- 
Ian.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-23 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-23 15:20 xan2
2003-12-23 16:16 ` Erik Mouw
2003-12-23 17:07 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-23 19:12   ` Remove superflous copy of logo in /Documentation John Bradford
2003-12-23 19:38   ` [License of kernel components] linux-2.x.y/Documentation/logo.GIF should be logo.PNG? Erik Andersen
2003-12-23 20:45     ` Ian Hastie [this message]
2003-12-23 21:43       ` Edesio Costa e Silva
2003-12-23 22:27 xan2
2003-12-26 17:48 ` Paulo Marques

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