Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751192AbWEWCzO (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751260AbWEWCzO (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:55:14 -0400 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:37318 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbWEWCzN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:55:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4472798A.20601@stesmi.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 04:55:06 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nuri Jawad CC: Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8983730C84AF9875987D403F" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 38 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8983730C84AF9875987D403F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nuri Jawad wrote: > Hi, > just wanted to remark that I never liked that bzip was replaced by bzip2 > (were there license issues?) since bzip's compression was/is often > stronger: bzip was (possibly) infringing a patent so a method bzip used was removed and subsequently bzip2 was created. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1997/12/msg00778.html // Stefan --------------enig8983730C84AF9875987D403F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEcnmPBrn2kJu9P78RA9QpAKCKHEf2PV6bC8yKLG8YONKHU2UI9gCfQ3Et hTnBArPgWF04Sp9xh6zNIRo= =ZB80 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8983730C84AF9875987D403F-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/