Re: Adding back compressed GIF code to cernlib after July 7 -- any objections?

2004-07-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040706 15:55]: > > My understanding is that the last known patent on LZW compression held > > by Unisys, in Canada, expires tomorrow, July 7th 2004. I plan to ask my > > sponsor, Bas Zoetekouw,

Re: Adding back compressed GIF code to cernlib after July 7 -- any objections?

2004-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040706 15:55]: > My understanding is that the last known patent on LZW compression held > by Unisys, in Canada, expires tomorrow, July 7th 2004. I plan to ask my > sponsor, Bas Zoetekouw, to upload a version of cernlib with compressed > GIF creation support

Adding back compressed GIF code to cernlib after July 7 -- any objections?

2004-07-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, My understanding is that the last known patent on LZW compression held by Unisys, in Canada, expires tomorrow, July 7th 2004. I plan to ask my sponsor, Bas Zoetekouw, to upload a version of cernlib with compressed GIF creation support added back in soon afterwards. (This may be delayed s