Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 22:40:16 -0700 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MPPC for Netgraph: Isn't it time? Message-ID: <1464759616.15911.9.camel@me.com> In-Reply-To: <201605311758.LAA27388@mail.lariat.net> References: <201605311758.LAA27388@mail.lariat.net>
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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. -- Rui Paulo
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