Re: Bug#220464: gimp: LZW patent is still valid in Europe and Japan

2003-11-14 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:17:18 -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >the LZW patent is still valid in Europe and Japan. > > > >Due to the possible legal risk for your users in Europe and Japan it's > >still required to keep LZW code out of main. That's right. FYI, in Japan, LZW p

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-20 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:36:40 +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > One of "More-clearly-free alternative scalable Japanese fonts" is > > > kochi-mincho/kochi-gothic in sid/sarge. Many Japanese use this > > > font rather than Watanabe font. > > > > If this alternative contains the necessary glyphs, then I

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-20 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:43:04 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: > > I think if your request was phrased differently, I think the outcome > > may have been different. > > > > What we agreed was HITACHI's claim in current shape can not be the > > reason to remove package. > > > > How we treat package with

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-21 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:35:10 +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > [1 ] > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:52:01AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:36:40 +0100, > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > One of "More-clearly-free alternative scalable Japanese

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-25 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:58:09 -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:01:39 -0500, > > Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > >> I'm confused -- and don't read Japanese. But let me get one thin

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-25 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:01:39 -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > I'm confused -- and don't read Japanese. But let me get one thing > straight: what Hitachi distributed were strictly bitmap fonts, right? > No metafont, truetype, or postscript font outlines, just bitmaps? Well, it's complicated issue.

Re: LZW patented file left in .orig.tar source package?

2002-10-30 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:13:21 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:09:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I disagree. The DFSG speaks explicitly of the licenses of the software > > being distributed; software that may be illegal to use or distribute for > > reasons *other t