From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Patent nonsense: zstd Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:13:58 +0100 Message-ID: <77c1c207-4f67-957b-5de2-3901b8391644@tobias.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jhx7ncoEHIm8vUsMCLSSfGGKrBjgulkDw" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c34Xi-0005zM-0q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 13:14:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c34Xe-0002Db-RJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 13:14:09 -0400 Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.200]:36683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c34Xe-00028e-L4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 13:14:06 -0400 Received: from mfilter23-d.gandi.net (mfilter23-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.151]) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A602A3C3 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:14:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.70.183.200]) by mfilter23-d.gandi.net (mfilter23-d.gandi.net [::ffff:10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fS8sLlYQ21R6 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:14:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.24] (162.196-247-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be [81.247.196.162]) (Authenticated sender: me@tobias.gr) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94166298 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:14:02 +0100 (CET) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --jhx7ncoEHIm8vUsMCLSSfGGKrBjgulkDw Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="w4H9Ia6G6waxcxqJwo0kOQqqkCSl5XGB0"; protected-headers="v1" From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice To: guix-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <77c1c207-4f67-957b-5de2-3901b8391644@tobias.gr> Subject: Patent nonsense: zstd --w4H9Ia6G6waxcxqJwo0kOQqqkCSl5XGB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Guix, I've had a package for the =E2=80=98zstd=E2=80=99 compressor lying about = for quite some time =E2=80=94 since before its weird appropriation by Facebook Inc. as a= PR tool. Apart from that, it's nice. It's fast. Why not upstream it. While updating and cleaning it up for submission, I noticed a =E2=80=98PA= TENTS=E2=80=99 file[0] that sounds vaguely threatening, or at least tries to do. IANAL enough to tell. Any opinions on its meaningfulness? Does it affect the (BSD-3) licence at all? Does zstd still belong in Guix? There's some discussion at [1] (GitHub link) for those interested. Kind regards, T G-R [0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/dev/PATENTS [1]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/335 --w4H9Ia6G6waxcxqJwo0kOQqqkCSl5XGB0-- --jhx7ncoEHIm8vUsMCLSSfGGKrBjgulkDw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEqBAEBCgAUBQJYHhNXDRxtZUB0b2JpYXMuZ3IACgkQkczbm0hUG5np1wgAx+dd 6rDijqZ4fIcA3fQKeutQ3DHPoI6PNDgtXloMwuIjY0u2gYDImFU4i75dmIqL/VST FxVhv01bWCmTuBRWw2xBY1rE3yIoKAg60WIzUfXZL27h5LXVKs+zhPNTQmhu7cir YsqpNDiFzE6BTLfRqhUXdD6EGhNSNESKkIKjb/zNOnhmYaXhe/ZzkJO/nhUsJcFP ra5ORjNfeDRAi3/TYlf1XOCkcX3rBE+JYXAzftmcBrIaOfcqWXHB7CvsZ4j6KniJ 0b+BGvuQxL31gMPSskDaXc8wgplYa+7lxxpPzvouGDOO654oWjBCu2kQzml7pH9l etC6A5uL9dnzO7lsIg== =qxmx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jhx7ncoEHIm8vUsMCLSSfGGKrBjgulkDw--