Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:56:00 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Last Stacker patent expires May 14th Message-ID: <201104032108.PAA27914@lariat.net>
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Everyone: The last of the Stac data compression patents, granted in 1991, expires on May 14th of this year. For a long time, all implementations of PPP for FreeBSD have had stubs for the Stac compression methods (in particular, MPPC; see, for example, /sys/netgraph/mppc.c) and there's now absolutely no reason for them to do so anymore. (Linux, in fact, has jumped the gun and has compression code available.) Shall we start coding? --Brett Glass
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