Apparently the IBM patent on LZW is still pending.

diff --git a/README b/README
index da3060582c0d27a9964bffc3175e03d41ef3f5ee..44123daead41f3f8765b9d09a97ce6d24882cf69 100644 (file)
--- 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 $)