From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 14:24: 7 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 DEF6F37B565 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:24:03 -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 OAA06596; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:23:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:23:58 -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: <200005032052.OAA34392@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 No, I'm afraid I can't quite agree. A major distinguishing feature of *BSD vs. GPL'd systems is that they can ship unencumbered. The article in the URL does not specifically show that *BSD, or products derived and containing, could *not* be so encumbered. So, yes, I'd still have some concerns. On Wed, 3 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > phk pointed me at > http://mordor.lpt.fi/doc/ncompress/copyright > > which says that we're as safe as one can be. So forget that I > mentioned it. > > 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