From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262040AbTLWUpf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:45:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261928AbTLWUpf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:45:35 -0500 Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([212.104.129.89]:39652 "EHLO mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262094AbTLWUpe (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:45:34 -0500 From: Ian Hastie 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <178ed117d672.17d672178ed1@ono.com> <200312231207.53580.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20031223193806.GA5864@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20031223193806.GA5864@codepoet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312232045.32535.ianh@iahastie.local.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.