Subject: Re: Uploading compress-package 1.1 on master

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 23:56:26 +0200

On Aug 4,  6:55pm, David Frey wrote:
} Subject: Re: Uploading compress-package 1.1 on master
} In message <[email-masked]>, 
} [email-masked] writes:
} >Description: 
} > compress-package: fileset to build a Debian compress package

} compress belongs into non-free, not into devel! 
} Reason: Copyright-problems (Unisys-Patent)

No. This package *is* free: it only allows one to build a compress
binary package, which then will be distributable under Unisys conditions.

BTW, I read in this list that the Unisys patent does not apply outside of
the USA. Is this true? In this case, maybe someone in Europe can make a
binary compress package available?

Yves.

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From: David Frey <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 23:24:02 +0200

>binary package, which then will be distributable under Unisys conditions.

OK. But isn't the netscape-package in non-free/contrib as well?

>binary compress package available?

I don't know.
[Sidenote (just thinking aloud): Has for example Sun licensed it's compress(1)?]

David