Re: ppp compression schemes

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Nov 1998 08:41:19 GMT

Followup to: <v04020a02b2664cac88e7@[206.163.71.146]>
By author: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> At 05:03 -0800 1998-11-04, Riley Williams wrote:
> >On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > Is there any way to either make Ascend include ppp-deflate or
> > > bsd-compress support or to make Linux include stac compression?
> >I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that stac compression is a
> >proprietary protocol (hence the Stac v M$ case a while back), and this
> >is the reason why it's not in Linux...
>
> Not entirely:
> <http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1974.txt>. At the
> very least I would guess an implementation of Stac LZS compression could be
> implemented as a kernel module.

1.1. Licensing

Source and object licenses are available on a non-discriminatory
basis. Hardware implementations are also available. Contact Stac
Electronics at the address and phone number listed with the author's
address for further information.

Doesn't sound free to me. Not at all.

-hpa

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