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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:49:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dom Mitchell)
Cc:        van.woerkom@netcologne.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip?
Message-ID:  <199812052249.OAA00820@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <E0zmKgy-0000EK-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> from Dom Mitchell at "Dec 5, 98 04:36:24 pm"

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Dom Mitchell writes:
> Marc van Woerkom <marc@netcologne.de> writes:
> > These files are only about 70% of their gzip counterparts - quite impressiv
> > 
> > Julian Seward (jseward@acm.org), the author of this program claims extensiv
> > tests on his web page
> > 
> >     http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk
> 
> I was under the impression that there were several patent issues with
> it.  Not sure what though.  It might be worth reading the docs closely.

>From the web site:

   "...it's open-source (BSD-style license), and, as far as I
    know, patent-free. (To the best of my knowledge. I can't afford
    to do a full patent search, so I can't guarantee this.  Caveat
    emptor).  So you can use it for whatever you like.  Naturally,
    the source code is part of the distribution."

-Archie

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