From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 22 1:28:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D55537BD92 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 28844 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2000 09:28:22 -0000 Received: from du09.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.9) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 22 Mar 2000 09:28:22 -0000 Message-ID: <38D89205.BB48156C@mail.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:27:33 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > On that subject, here is a question I've often wondered about: > the FreeBSD distribution comes with the Unix compress command > included. Doesn't this infringe the Unisys patent on LZW? Any implementations in use before a certain date are grandfathered. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message