Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:06:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD License Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980130112910.552A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199801300203.CAA26796@awfulhak.org>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > I'm not sure that this is the correct question either. > > The rfc seems to indicate to me that they are not willing to give > their software away without at least an NDA. That in itself is not a > problem if they're willing to tell us (or me) how to implement the > algorithm (and don't place any restrictions on that knowledge). If > they were willing to do this, I would have thought it would already > be explained in the rfc. Unfortunately it isn't. Are you sure? The RFC implies that the information it contains, plus the information in ANSI X3.241-1994 is a complete definition of the protocol. > We need to ask them if they will give us enough knowledge to > implement STAC compression *without* an NDA, without any licensing > requirements and so that the resulting code can be distributed with > FreeBSD for the world to see and use without restriction on that > usage. This `knowledge' may be in source code form already or it > may be a spec.... > > Feel free to give 'em my name, although I'm no expert on copyrights. I suspect the issue may be one of Patent licencing rather than copyright.
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