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From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this?
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> I agree. And while folks are correct that licensing is not the only issue
> here, why not take the opportunity to adopt something BSD-licensed instead?
> At the same time, it would be possible to integrate bzip instead of invoking
> it as a separate process. This would make it more efficient when we go to
> bzip for ports and packages.

Brett, i'm going to thank you on behalf of the various BSD projects for
volunteering your time and skills in creating a BSD licensed tar that is
GNU-tar compatable. should i expect this before or after the BSD licensed
C compiler?

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