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
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 $)