Author: Greg Simpson
Date: 23:52:57 01/03/06
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On January 03, 2006 at 23:54:40, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >>congratulations for an exceptional and very important result! I think there may >>soon be news in some data compression programs so I have a question: is this >>algorithm patent free? > >As with anything these days, from "single click order" of Amazon and up, there >is a patent application (still in pending state) on the novelty aspects of the >algorithm, as well as the copyright on the source code. That's how it has to be >done these days for ones own protection. > >The non-commercial use of either is free (see license.txt). I would imagine if >Kodak wanted to put the algorithm into its digital camera some day, they would >need a commercial license (assuming patent is granted by then and their variant >uses the patented aspects). The educational & research use, even with a >commercial aspect (e.g. a college charging for a CS course and using the code or >preprints for teaching), is also free. I am not an attorney and haven't dwelt on >this topic beyond the absolute minimum I couldn't avoid, so that's roughly my >understanding of the IP status and the licensing. Sounds to me like the license is incompatible with the GPL. You can stop drooling now, Alessandro.
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