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Subject: Patent expired; time to add protocol to FreeBSD?
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Everyone:

The Hifn, Inc. patent on the compression used in Microsoft's MPPC 
protocol expired earlier this year. Shouldn't the code at

http://mavhome.dp.ua/MPPC/

at last be added to the source tree to support it?

--Brett Glass