Re: Patent question, libtiff, LZW -- Attn: Corinna

2004-10-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 20:14, Charles Wilson wrote: > the fedora core 2 version of netpbm > netpbm-10.19-7.src.rpm in > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/SRPMS/ > > both contain giftopnm and ppmtogif, which are LZW-enabled for both > decompression (giftopnm) and compression (ppmtogif).

Re: Patent question, libtiff, LZW -- Attn: Corinna

2004-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 10 17:48, Charles Wilson wrote: So, to release the latest version of libtiff (3.7.0beta2) I need to do one of the following: (1) get permission from Red Hat (it's their server, after all) to publish an LZW-enabled libtiff (2) rip the LZW stuff back out I'd prefer

Re: Patent question, libtiff, LZW -- Attn: Corinna

2004-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 17:48, Charles Wilson wrote: > So, to release the latest version of libtiff (3.7.0beta2) I need to do > one of the following: > (1) get permission from Red Hat (it's their server, after all) to > publish an LZW-enabled libtiff > (2) rip the LZW stuff back out > > I'd prefer (1). C