Re: (PM) STAC Cards

Josh Richards (jrichard@livingston.com)
Wed, 20 May 1998 21:22:43 -0700 (PDT)

On 21 May 1998, Chris Adams wrote:

> According to Josh Richards <jrichard@livingston.com>:
> >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?

<URL:http://www.hifn.com/>

> Under Linux, PPP compressors are only compiled as kernel modules so that
> licensing issues are not a big problem.

<nod>. I've got a couple personal Linux boxes (typing from one at the
moment in fact).

-jr

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