Re: (PM) STAC Cards
Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
21 May 1998 03:26:19 GMT
According to Josh Richards <jrichard@livingston.com>:
>On 21 May 1998, Chris Adams wrote:
>> As for Linux, I don't know if it will be supported or not. I looked
>> into it a little, and as far as I could tell the algorithm is patented
>> and must be licensed, which pretty much rules out a Linux version. I
>> would be happy to be proved wrong, but I never found an actual
>> description of the algorithm anywhere.
>
>Yes it must be licensed, but as far as I understand the portable C version
>is licensed pretty openly (and in fact free), just the more optimized and
>hardware implementations are costly.. Probably couldn't be GPL'd and
>distributed with the kernel, but a 3rd-party patch would probably be
>do-able. I don't know.
Do you know where I can find the portable C version or who to contact to
get it and info about licensing terms?
Under Linux, PPP compressors are only compiled as kernel modules so that
licensing issues are not a big problem.
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Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
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