At Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:26:47 +1000, James Purser wrote: > Does anybody know of, or are involved in projects that have been > hampered by software patents.
zsync is a kind of reverse-rsync implementation, which makes the whole rsync public-server thing actually possible since the server no longer needs to recalculate checksums. Potentially very useful for things like Debian mirror servers where small changes to package index files need to be updated regularly. AFAIK, the idea is basically unused due to patent fears (probably the same ones that killed the rsync-over-HTTP rproxy effort). (you should probably confirm the details before committing to anything though..) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
