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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
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