From 6849615c460f11e9c267059af5dbe93813fbe456 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:25:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Apparently the IBM patent on LZW is still pending. --- README | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index da30605..44123da 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ The BSD-Compress algorithm used for packet compression is the same as that used in the Unix "compress" command. It was apparently covered by U.S. patents 4,814,746 (owned by IBM) and 4,558,302 (owned by Unisys), and corresponding patents in various other countries (but not -Australia). I believe the Unisys patent expired in the US on 20 June -2003, and that the IBM patent was older. +Australia). Apparently the Unisys patent expired in the US on 20 June +2003, but the IBM patent is still pending. If these patents are of concern in your situation, you can build the package without including BSD-Compress. To do this, edit @@ -260,4 +260,4 @@ The primary site for releases of this software is: ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/ -($Id: README,v 1.34 2004/11/13 12:00:38 paulus Exp $) +($Id: README,v 1.35 2004/11/13 12:25:54 paulus Exp $) -- 2.39.2