At 11:40 PM 5/31/2016, Rui Paulo wrote:
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 hadÂ
> to integrate MPPC compression/encryption (see man page ng_mppc(4))Â
> for PPP/L2TP/PPTP manually, even though the HiFn patent has longÂ
> since expired and there's no reason not to include the files in theÂ
> FreeBSD code base. Could a committer with access to that part ofÂ
> the tree please import the files mppc.h, mppcc.c, and mppcd.c intoÂ
> /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.
The status of the patent is well known. All Linux distributions now
ship with a version of PoPToP (an inferior PPTP implementation) that
includes MPPC.
--Brett Glass
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