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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: bzip2 patent status query
To: cl81@gmx.net (Christian Ludwig)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:54:51 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <003d01c22819$ba1818b0$1c6fa8c0@hyper> from "Christian Ludwig" at Jul 10, 2002 03:57:27 PM
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Is bzip2 *definitely* patent-unencumbered?

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

> I think it's time to have bzip2 support in the kernel. I know the discussion
> about the speed and memory issues that are around with this. But everything
> in this patch is optional. You may use these new features if you want, you
> do not have to use them...
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