Subject: Re: pbmplus-10dec91-3

From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Jun 1996 13:02:52 -0700

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Michael Meskes, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>As far as I can tell this package doesn't belong into non-free but could go
>into graphics. Could anyone please check that? I think we have some other
>packages with almost the same copyright in the tree.

There are two problems here: 1) It uses gif which Unisys has patent
claims on. 2) Not all of the authors of the various additions to the pbm
utilities have made a permissive copyright...

Darren
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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:40:31 +0200 (MET DST)

> There are two problems here: 1) It uses gif which Unisys has patent

Doesn't xloadimage use it, too?

> utilities have made a permissive copyright...

Oops, I only checked the debian.copyright file. Sorry.

Michael
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From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:16:27 +0300

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> Doesn't xloadimage use it, too?

Only to decode, I think.  Decoding is OK.  pbmplus also creates GIF's.

gunzip also decodes .Z's, but it is still free.  Unisys has graciously
allowed people to decode, but not to code.