From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 14:44:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19771 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19757 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA20829; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:48:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:48:22 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "David O'Brien" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? In-Reply-To: <19981205144040.A20818@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. bzip1 was really bad in that aspect, but that is NOT the tune he was singing to several months back when i checked about bzip2, it was much more on the shady side according to the author. maybe he researched a bit more. -Alfred > > > -- > -- 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message