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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:13:07 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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 > Alan Cox wrote:

>>>o   add:        ISDN LZS Compression
>>>
>>I thought there was some fairly good reason as to why the LZS compression
>>patch is not in the official kernel ? Isn't somebodys patent getting in
>>the way ?
>>
> 
> LZS isn't shippable in the USA, only the free world


Maybe you mean it isn't shippable from the USA to anywhere else
in the world?  Still a reason not to include it, but I was under
the impression that the real restrictions on encryption were about
exports only.

Ben

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