- From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 14:44:39 -0800 (PST)
- To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Jim Gettys wrote: > compress The encoding format produced by the common UNIX file compression > program ``compress''. This format is an adaptive Lempel-Ziv-Welch coding > (LZW). Yikes! If you reference LZW in the HTTP spec, then RFC 2026 section 10.3.2 comes into effect. That means you have to document the Unisys patent in the spec and the IETF executive director will have to contact Unisys with a request for openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory licensing terms. - Chris
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