On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Michele A Debandi wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > > Which, btw, is already happening, the forthcoming ax25 library set will
> > > include Tomi's socket IO library extension with zlib support. Things like
> > > node will support it out of the box. Stay tuned...
> > >
> > > LZW has patent restrictions, and zlib's LZ77 is generally better
> > > anyway. Beats bare huffman coding as well.
> >
> > One argument for LZW would be compatibility with xNOS implementations
> > which use SM0RGV's lzw.c code.
>
> I agree. The best thing is to support more compression protocols like ssh,
> and if you are outside the EC and scary about patents #undef LZW in compi-
> lation. And backward compatibility is useful for xNOS user. A Linux
> user could use SSH without encryption and lives almost happy (except on
> a bell 202 link, maybe).
Either we stick to the GPL or we don't, #ifdef's or #undef's won't solve
anything. Please _read_ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html, especially
the part about using LZW for anything other than making GIFs.
And what does being in or outside of EC have to do with all this?
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