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| | Re: nomarch-1.2 - Problems with RLE patent 4,586,027 |
 | | From looking at it, the patent stands because of the other features combined with basic RLE, and does not cover basic RLE by itself. |
 | | Conlusion: US Patent 4,586,027 does not apply to nomarch, which RLE's by identifying a repeat count of preceding byte with an escape code of 0x90, and the escape code in the input is represented by specially encoding a repeat count of zero. |
 | | On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 13:19, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:58:28AM +1200, Matthew Grant was heard to say: > Could you please withdraw the nomarch package from the main upload queue. |
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