torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> The one file you mention (bsd_comp.c) is the only real special case that
> I'm aware of, which is why it cannot be linked into the kernel directly
> (it only ever gets built as a module - not for any technical reasons,
> but simply due to the copyright issue).
The BSD folks have recently dropped the advertising clause from their
license. I don't know if this immediately affected the 4.3BSD
compress sources (from which bsd_comp.c was derived, according to the
comment in the source code).
Another issues: the compression algorithm used is probably the one
patented by Unisys (or very similar to it)...
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