Mark Eichin:
they often come without a C compiler. And it's more than just compress
Often? Solaris is the only unix I know of that doesn't come with a
Add another one: SCO OpenServer 5. Well, the development system is on
the CD-ROM, but you can't install it without entering that little
silly restrictions. And the free world is only 100ms away...
This is why we moved the mailing list out of the U.S.
Yes, it was very good move. But the distribution needs to be moved too.
Consider a Debian package which contains four-letter words - say, an
improved version of passwd with a
Marek,
Please contact Unisys and report back to us.
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Bruce Perens:
I'd be happy to see someone make a compress package and
distribute it _from_their_own_site_ . If you can do that, please
go ahead. We'll put a note in the main archive that you distribute
it so that people can find it.
I guess that simply uploading it to sunsite or tsx-11 would
Red Hat, Slackware, FreeBSD, ... all have compress as part of the
standard distribution. I don't think they all would do something
that is against the law. Maybe something is wrong with the Debian's
interpretation of the patent?
I want to explain my position on this yet another time.
I
Bruce Perens:
this situation is that it's lawsuit bait for me to distribute patented
software without a license. If you look on Unisys web page, they say
yes you definitely need a license. Red Hat could have one for all I know.
I'm not suggesting that we do anything illegal. If Red Hat can
Marek Michalkiewicz says:
Red Hat, Slackware, FreeBSD, ... all have compress as part of the
standard distribution. I don't think they all would do something
that is against the law. Maybe something is wrong with the Debian's
interpretation of the patent?
Infomagic's December cut of Linux
On Fri, 24 May 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
Bruce Perens:
this situation is that it's lawsuit bait for me to distribute patented
software without a license. If you look on Unisys web page, they say
yes you definitely need a license. Red Hat could have one for all I know.
I'm not
If it is - better move the distribution outside the US now, it only
gets worse. Not only something that was in the public domain may be
patented, you can also get in trouble if there is a four-letter word
in some package. It is very unfortunate that most Linux distributions
come from the
they often come without a C compiler. And it's more than just compress
Often? Solaris is the only unix I know of that doesn't come with a
compiler that can build gzip. (Note I did not say a C compiler --
HP/UX ships with a toy for building kernel config files, that is still
enough to build
I don't want anyone to risk anything, I just don't believe that the
problem is so serious because nobody else seems to care about it.
If it is - better move the distribution outside the US now, it only
gets worse. Not only something that was in the public domain may be
patented, you can also
Perhaps we can fix the font-file compression issue instead?
Under older releases, the X server actually ran a seperate program (so
having uncompress-gunzip did the right thing) to handle both
uncompression and bdf conversion. If XFS doesn't already have gzip
support it should be easy enough to
Stephen Early writes:
Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there
may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate
to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use.
If this is possible I'll make a package for it.
If we
From: Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there
may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate
to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use.
If this is possible I'll make a package for it.
I'd be
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Stephen Early wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there
may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate
to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use.
Hello,
Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there
may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate
to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use.
If this is possible I'll make a package for it.
If this is really impossible, would
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there
may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate
to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use.
If this is possible I'll make a package for it.
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