Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:39:46 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MPPC for Netgraph: Isn't it time? Message-ID: <201606011639.KAA09929@mail.lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <1464759616.15911.9.camel@me.com> References: <201605311758.LAA27388@mail.lariat.net> <1464759616.15911.9.camel@me.com>
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At 11:40 PM 5/31/2016, Rui Paulo wrote: >On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 11:55 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > Everyone: > > > > Just built a kernel today, and realized that for years I have had > > to integrate MPPC compression/encryption (see man page ng_mppc(4)) > > for PPP/L2TP/PPTP manually, even though the HiFn patent has long > > since expired and there's no reason not to include the files in the > > FreeBSD code base. Could a committer with access to that part of > > the tree please import the files mppc.h, mppcc.c, and mppcd.c into > > /sys/net so there's no need to find and fetch them every time? > >No committer with a sane mind will import code knowing there's a patent >even if it's expired because TANAL (They Are Not Lawyers). > >It's best to contact the FreeBSD Foundation to analyse the status of >the patent first. The status of the patent is well known. All Linux distributions now ship with a version of PoPToP (an inferior PPTP implementation) that includes MPPC. --Brett Glass
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