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- From: Edward Avis epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
- Subject: [Patents] Re: monopoly/publicity contradiction?
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:14:01 +0000 (GMT)
>From: "Nick F." <marmalade@libertysurf.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Patents] monopoly/publicity contradiction?
>Publication of source code is not an infringement. For example, I can
>download a complete GIF compression utility for private study, as Mr
>Probert said, but as soon as I use it publicly only then does it it become
>an issue.
So what happened to all the open-source GIF encoders? If publication of
source code is not an infringement, why have the authors been forced to
censor any code which does LZW compression?
--
Ed Avis
epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
- [Patents] Re: monopoly/publicity contradiction?, Edward Avis epa98
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