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From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: Re: bin/146
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* Aren't there some kind of restrictions on the use of this
* version of compress - like patent issues, it's GPL'd, or
* some such?

There are two patents that cover the algorithm.  So far they
haven't been enforced against the compress program on unix.

All versions of compress suffer from this same problem.

-Dave