Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:44:29 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD License Message-ID: <19980130204429.65423@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199801310130.CAA09766@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 02:30:55AM %2B0100 References: <19980130170718.22132@scsn.net> <199801310130.CAA09766@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 02:30:55AM +0100, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > 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. :-) Well, that's what I was doing when I was talking to Ms. Poland :-) She is a representative of the patent-holder, you see. It should be noted, however, that Ms. Poland is in _sales_, so the very idea of seeing anything based on LZS being distributed for free is very likely abhorrent to her :-) She is not a lawyer, so she may be completely wrong in her belief that anything at all based on LZS is covered by STAC's patents, but I'm not a lawyer, either, and can't afford to find out that she _was_ right in court.
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