jbradford@dial.pip writes:
> Is bzip2 *definitely* patent-unencumbered?
You could ask a lawyer and hope he's right...
> It claims to be on it's home page, but I found this from the OpenBSD people:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/2.8_packages/m68k/bzip-0.21.tgz-long.html
...but that's not bzip2. It's the original bzip, which used
an arithmetic encoding in the final stage. The bzip2 program
won't even read files created with bzip.
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