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From: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
Message-ID: <4922@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 08:07:01 GMT
References: <5763@megaron.arizona.edu> <2150@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <2150@rtech.UUCP> brent@rtech.UUCP (Brent Williams) writes:
>	Seems that the author of the MS-DOS version of ARC, and
>	President of SEA has filed a "look & feel" law suit against the
>	author of pkarc.  I wonder what impact this will have on the
>	Unix versions that are floating around, all of which are derived
>	from the source code for ARC, which was released by SEA.

Sounds like a lawsuit that will go nowhere fast.  As I understand it,
S.E.A.'s ARC was based upon the published (and copyrighted, AT&T) source
for the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm so if anybody should be firing off
complaints it shouldn't be S.E.A.  Phil Katz at least improved upon the
algorithm.  Sounds like a nuisance lawsuit to me and, frankly, I'm
surprised to hear about it since PKARC has been out and about for a few
years now.  Anyone know EXACTLY what the complaint is?
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