Re: ppp-compress modprobe problems

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:15:32 +1200


On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 03:28:19PM +0100, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:

> ppp-compress-1 is predictor-1, and has definate copyright/patent
> problems, btw ppp-compress-2 (which you didn't ask about) is
> predictor-2, and suffers from the same problems.

Do you know the patent numbers or where I can find details on these
algorithms?

It should be possible for people in the free world to use these,
although such patches probably couldn't go into the main-stream.

-Chris

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