From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5615 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2007 23:28:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 5607 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2007 23:28:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:28:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 53524 invoked by uid 13447); 12 Jul 2007 23:28:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([71.210.203.224]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Jul 2007 23:28:34 -0000 Message-ID: <4696B997.9010504@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:28:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation References: <82y7hl7ktz.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <20070712150544.GA5063@calimero.vinschen.de> <82zm2161pb.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <20070712163556.GH6851@calimero.vinschen.de> <00dc01c7c4a8$d7ee7fb0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Besides, isn't the Unisys patent still valid in some god-forsaken patent > office or something? Nope, the last one expired three years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement I seem to recall another high-profile software patent that just expired recently in the US but is still valid elsewhere, but I can't bring it to mind right now.