Patent nonsense: zstd

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Guix,

I've had a package for the ‘zstd’ compressor lying about for quite some
time — 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 ‘PATENTS’
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

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