Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 02:40:11 -0700 | From | Joel Klecker <> | Subject | Re: Modules |
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At 20:40 -0700 1998-05-21, Trevor Johnson wrote: >% grep -i2 patent drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c > * Decompress a Deflate-compressed packet. > * > * Because of patent problems, we return DECOMP_ERROR for errors > * found by inspecting the input data and for system problems, but > * DECOMP_FATALERROR for any errors which could possibly be said to > * be being detected "after" decompression. For DECOMP_ERROR, > * we can issue a CCP reset-request; for DECOMP_FATALERROR, we may be > * infringing a patent of Motorola's if we do, so we take CCP down > * instead. > *
Read that carefully, it says the code works around a potential patent infringement.
-- Joel "Espy" Klecker <mailto:jk@espy.org> <http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/>
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