From owner-cvs-all Tue May 25 14:27:48 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAE715311; Tue, 25 May 1999 14:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id GAA01118; Wed, 26 May 1999 06:27:24 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <374B1422.79F6707@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 06:20:34 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Nordier Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c References: <199905252017.WAA15844@ceia.nordier.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Robert Nordier wrote: > > I'm just not up on the legal side of things: how does "Adaptive > Huffman Coding" stand in the patent world? Interestingly, that's my concern too. Huffman encoding is poor though. It is used to pre or post-compress a dictionary algorithm in almost any decent compression algorithm. The exception (which I think is used by bzip) requires too much memory to uncompress. Try posting the question on Usenet, though. Also, inquire about non-patented LZ variants. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message