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Andrey Kiselev wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:14:18PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
>>Now that the Unisys LZW patent has expired world-wide (as of
>>yesterday), what is libtiff's position on including LZW support in
>>libtiff?  If source for LZW is included by default, will support for
>>LZW be enabled by default in libtiff?
> 
> 
> I can merge LZW code back to the main trunk, if nobody can't give a
> reason not to do that. It is not an issue for me, because there are no
> software patents in my country, but LZW code was separated to help users
> to avoid problems in their countries, so if someone has opinions against
> LZW, please, tell us.
> 
> All libtiff codecs and features are enabled by default, and LZW will do
> after inclusion.

Andrey,

I think for the 3.7.0 release you should merge the LZW support back into the
main code tree and enable it by default.

Best regards,
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