Re: [tlug] Apache: Logging: how-to pipe logs or log toanothermachine (was Disk

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On 08 Sep 2002 19:00:12 +0900, Bruno Raoult <br@example.com> squashed this
out of the keyboard:

> In fact, LZW was not correct. Gzip uses LZ77, a LZW cousin. I am not
> sure about patents on LZ77...

OK. That explains it :)

This being said, I believe that the patent on the LZW algorithm expires in
June next year. Am I right in assuming that it passes into the public domain
thereafter and that we'll all be able to (legally) do tiff/lzw and gif/lzw?

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