Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Lapo Luchini
Charles Wilson wrote: Expires today. Yay!!! Shall I respin libtiff to include LZW support, and distribute the new LZW-capable libtiff via the cygwin mirror system? I guess my libungif package is obsolete too ^_^ -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available)

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Gareth Pearce
erm - not to rain on this ... but is it a good idea if the patent has only expired in america? Gareth - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Unisys patent On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:38:28AM

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I posted a reply to this earlier but it's just not my day for doing things right. I shouldn't publicise my bad language skills, should I?! :-) Please don't do this. From tomorrow the Unisys LZW patent will be defunct in the US, and again a day later in Canada. That still leaves serveral

Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm about to do the include guard cleanup I mentioned some time ago. Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? :

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: I'm about to do the include guard cleanup I mentioned some time ago. Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? :

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Collins
Max Bowsher wrote: I'm about to do the include guard cleanup I mentioned some time ago. Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? :

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Elfyn McBratney wrote: I posted a reply to this earlier but it's just not my day for doing things right. I shouldn't publicise my bad language skills, should I?! :-) Please don't do this. From tomorrow the Unisys LZW patent will be defunct in the US, and again a day later in Canada. That still

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Collins
Max Bowsher wrote: Off-list (presumably accidentally), Gary R. Van Sickle replied: I tend to think that the include guards should wrap as much of the file as possible, idea being that the compiler then bypasses the most text possible. But then again, rumor has it that gcc (at least) recognizes

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: I posted a reply to this earlier but it's just not my day for doing things right. I shouldn't publicise my bad language skills, should I?! :-) Please don't do this. From tomorrow the Unisys LZW patent will be defunct in