From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 17:33:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16293 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16147 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA09766; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 02:30:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199801310130.CAA09766@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: The BSD License In-Reply-To: <19980130170718.22132@scsn.net> from "Donald J. Maddox" at "Jan 30, 98 05:07:18 pm" To: dmaddox@scsn.net Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 02:30:55 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" According to Donald J. Maddox: > It seems that the RFC and ANSI X3.241-74 provide all the info necessary to > implement the LZS algorithm; however, I talked today with Cheryl Poland of > Hi/fn (aka STAC) about this, and she seems convinced that implementing > this in just about any way I can imagine would be a violation of one or > more of Hi/fn's patents :-( Even if so, it might be possible to get explicit permission from the patent holder to distribute a binary, or even source code, FreeBSD. "Licence" it, if you will (for no, or a very small fee). That's entierly up to the patent holder, and the reason that he/she/it owns the patent, I guess. Asking shouldn't hurt. :-) /Mikael