From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 13:22:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC7937B533 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 13:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21388 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:22:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA34064 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:22:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005032022.OAA34064@harmony.village.org> Subject: Unisys Patent vs Compress To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 14:22:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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