Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:23:58 -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.4.10.10005031422350.54345-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200005032052.OAA34392@harmony.village.org>
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No, I'm afraid I can't quite agree. A major distinguishing feature of *BSD vs. GPL'd systems is that they can ship unencumbered. The article in the URL does not specifically show that *BSD, or products derived and containing, could *not* be so encumbered. So, yes, I'd still have some concerns. On Wed, 3 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > phk pointed me at > http://mordor.lpt.fi/doc/ncompress/copyright > > which says that we're as safe as one can be. So forget that I > mentioned it. > > 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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