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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:11:01 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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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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