Re: [Cooker] Re: [RPM] 2008.0 main/backports gimp-2.4.4-1mdv2008.0

[Per Ãyvind Karlsen]

> I thought that by now it was well-established that citing Wikipedia as a
> reliable source for *anything* was fundamentally wrong and causes you to
> lose the thread.
>
> We just don't have a name for this law yet, AFAIK, but we should. :)
Ah :)

Anyways, the wiki page has several references and sources on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement

The most reliable source would be from the patent owner Unisys itself:
http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/

Also worth noticing is that Fedora builds gimp with lzw compression (which is 
the default in gimp's configure scripts), so I'd say that it should be quite 
okay for us to do the same. :)
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Regards,
Per Ãyvind Karlsen
Mandriva Norway