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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 06:20:34 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c
Message-ID:  <374B1422.79F6707@newsguy.com>
References:  <199905252017.WAA15844@ceia.nordier.com>

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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."



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