Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:45:29 -0400 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:63760 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:45:28 -0400 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200207101648.g6AGm25389637@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: bzip2 patent status query To: jbradford@dial.pipex.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:48:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cl81@gmx.net (Christian Ludwig), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200207101554.QAA07949@darkstar.example.net> from "jbradford@dial.pipex.com" at Jul 10, 2002 04:54:51 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 18 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. - 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/