From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 14:13: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E2537B825 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06544; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:12:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:12:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unisys Patent vs Compress In-Reply-To: <200005032022.OAA34064@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Concern over LZW caused Legato to invent their own compression, so, I'd say, yes, there's concern. On Wed, 3 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > It was my understanding that compress was covered by the unisys lzw > patents. Are there issues with including it in the tree? Is there > some license from Unisys that I'm unaware of that allows its use? Are > we going to be a target of the Unisys legal department if we keep it > in the tree. They are going after web sites with GIF right now. Is > there anything that we need to worry about? > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message