Hi,
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > OK, but the client/user has enabled compression ("software compression enabled"
> > option in the Windoze Dial Up Network).
>
> Windoze machines do LZS, which is patented by Stac Electronics, or
> MPPC, which AFAIK is derived from LZS. The Linux kernel driver
> doesn't do either of these methods, and I am unwilling to add any
> patented compression methods to it.
And if it documented in RFC? Is it enough to produce patented _mechanism_
(not algorithm, because you makes your own LZS algorithm) of compressing
and exchanging packets between connected sites? Do you need to pay to
produce LZS for Linux not within LHA archiver?
WBR,
Paul.
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