Hi all, My understanding is that the last known patent on LZW compression held by Unisys, in Canada, expires tomorrow, July 7th 2004. I plan to ask my sponsor, Bas Zoetekouw, to upload a version of cernlib with compressed GIF creation support added back in soon afterwards. (This may be delayed several days from the expiry date due to some real-life obligations I have.) Any objections?
N.B. I have always previously removed compressed GIF creation source code from the orig.tar.gz of the cernlib packages distributed by Debian. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
