On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 11:55 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > Just built a kernel today, and realized that for years I have had > to integrate MPPC compression/encryption (see man page ng_mppc(4)) > for PPP/L2TP/PPTP manually, even though the HiFn patent has long > since expired and there's no reason not to include the files in the > FreeBSD code base. Could a committer with access to that part of > the tree please import the files mppc.h, mppcc.c, and mppcd.c into > /sys/net so there's no need to find and fetch them every time?
No committer with a sane mind will import code knowing there's a patent even if it's expired because TANAL (They Are Not Lawyers). It's best to contact the FreeBSD Foundation to analyse the status of the patent first. -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
