Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi debian-legal, > > Can someone say whether I may leave a file that implements a patented > algorithm (LZW compression for GIFs) in the source tarball for > OpenOffice.org? The file is not built or distributed - I have patched the > build to use a dummy version of the class that does nothing [1].
You have to take it out of whatever Debian distributes. I can download the the .orig.tar.gz file, so it can't be in that. Even if the .diff.gz takes it out. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]