MPPC for Netgraph: Isn't it time?

[Rui Paulo]

On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 11:55 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Just built a kernel today, and realized that for years I have had 
> to integrate MPPC compression/encryption (see man page ng_mppc(4)) 
> for PPP/L2TP/PPTP manually, even though the HiFn patent has long 
> since expired and there's no reason not to include the files in the 
> FreeBSD code base. Could a committer with access to that part of 
> the tree please import the files mppc.h, mppcc.c, and mppcd.c into 
> /sys/net so there's no need to find and fetch them every time?

No committer with a sane mind will import code knowing there's a patent
even if it's expired because TANAL (They Are Not Lawyers).

It's best to contact the FreeBSD Foundation to analyse the status of
the patent first.

-- 
Rui Paulo