Re: legal status of David Brownell's zcip code

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 1:33 am, Michael Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just wondering about the legal status of David Brownell's zcip code.
> Besides the fact that it is GPL (as the source code states), is it
> affected by Apple's patent claims that made the earlier zcip code (by
> Brad Hards etc.) become unavailable?

What exactly were those patent claims?  I kind of thought
the issue with the earlier code wasn't really patents,
though it's a bit puzzling why the ZCIP I-D still hasn't
been finalized as an RFC.

- Dave



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