From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 14:40:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19453 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19448 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA20930; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:40:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981205144040.A20818@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:40:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19981205124324.A6892@top.worldcontrol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 05:03:14PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 05:03:14PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > You should also consider what the author has to say about the algorithm he > uses. > > Supposedly he in not sure if his algorithm is copyrighted technology > becuase of the mix of algorithms he uses. He says this because he is [overly] paranoid of patents. He was forced to abandon the original `bzip' because he knew he was on the edge of violating some US patents. Anyway, he doesn't say he "isn't sure". You are stretching a little. To quote: PATENTS: To the best of my knowledge, bzip2 does not use any patented algorithms. However, I do not have the resources available to carry out a full patent search. Therefore I cannot give any guarantee of the above statement. End of legalities. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message