Re: [OT] "is really" (Was: Re: Patent issues)

2004-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:51:37PM +, Marco Franzen wrote: > > G. Branden Robinson| Psychology is really biology. > > Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chemistry is really physics. > > http

[OT] "is really" (Was: Re: Patent issues)

2004-02-26 Thread Marco Franzen
> G. Branden Robinson| Psychology is really biology. > Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chemistry is really physics. > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is really math. ;-) Bu

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:29:37PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Feb 19, 2004, at 04:09, Roland Stigge wrote: > > >We don't know if the patent holder enforces the named patents next > >week. > > No, we don't. But we do know that in the past, Unisys has been very > active in enforcing it

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Feb 19, 2004, at 04:09, Roland Stigge wrote: We don't know if the patent holder enforces the named patents next week. No, we don't. But we do know that in the past, Unisys has been very active in enforcing its LZW ("GIF") patent. We assume that a patent holder who has previously litigated

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roland Stigge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040219 10:10]: > Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > > I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 > > > July 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could > > > start to move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and

Re: Re: Patent issues

2004-02-19 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 > > July 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could > > start to move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and > > contrib to main. > They will most likely not be m

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-18 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:22:29PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 July > 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could start to > move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and contrib to > main. They wil

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roland Stigge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040218 18:40]: > I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 July > 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could start to > move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and contrib to > main. I think this is a g