Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:12:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unisys Patent vs Compress Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005031412170.54345-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200005032022.OAA34064@harmony.village.org>
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Concern over LZW caused Legato to invent their own compression, so, I'd say, yes, there's concern. On Wed, 3 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > It was my understanding that compress was covered by the unisys lzw > patents. Are there issues with including it in the tree? Is there > some license from Unisys that I'm unaware of that allows its use? Are > we going to be a target of the Unisys legal department if we keep it > in the tree. They are going after web sites with GIF right now. Is > there anything that we need to worry about? > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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