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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2004-11-13 12:25:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2004-11-13 12:25:54 +0000 |
| commit | 6849615c460f11e9c267059af5dbe93813fbe456 (patch) | |
| tree | b9bba14f47be3611ce5f9119e1f20950cd06ecaa /README | |
| parent | 71b6b5b21419e5ab151a9bb2da0997bda855fa6c (diff) | |
| download | ppp-6849615c460f11e9c267059af5dbe93813fbe456.tar.gz | |
Apparently the IBM patent on LZW is still pending.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ The BSD-Compress algorithm used for packet compression is the same as that used in the Unix "compress" command. It was apparently covered by U.S. patents 4,814,746 (owned by IBM) and 4,558,302 (owned by Unisys), and corresponding patents in various other countries (but not -Australia). I believe the Unisys patent expired in the US on 20 June -2003, and that the IBM patent was older. +Australia). Apparently the Unisys patent expired in the US on 20 June +2003, but the IBM patent is still pending. If these patents are of concern in your situation, you can build the package without including BSD-Compress. To do this, edit @@ -260,4 +260,4 @@ The primary site for releases of this software is: ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/ -($Id: README,v 1.34 2004/11/13 12:00:38 paulus Exp $) +($Id: README,v 1.35 2004/11/13 12:25:54 paulus Exp $) |