From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 14:51:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20456 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20451 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA11152; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma011147; Sat, 5 Dec 98 14:49:47 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id OAA00820; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:49:47 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199812052249.OAA00820@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? In-Reply-To: from Dom Mitchell at "Dec 5, 98 04:36:24 pm" To: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dom Mitchell) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:49:47 -0800 (PST) Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dom Mitchell writes: > Marc van Woerkom 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message