On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:08:20PM -0700, Ryan Bloom wrote:
> I also do not believe that we should be making this decision right now. I am
> 100% in agreement with Jim about this. We should table this whole discussion
> until emotions have calmed, the patent issue has been finally resolved (Dirk
> told me today that he knows of two patents, and he would post about them),
> and Apache 2.0 has shipped.
On the zlib main site (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/):
zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered --
that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless data-compression library
for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system.
Not to say that they may not be wrong, but their view seems to be
that zlib and its algortihms aren't covered by any compression
patents. I don't know if this helps at all. -- justin
