Re: bzip2 patent status query

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 16:11:01 EST

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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:

> Is bzip2 *definitely* patent-unencumbered?

As long as bitflipping and xor are patented, I guess there
must be _something_ covering bzip2 ;)

Rik

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