Re: bzip2 for source packages?

To: Daniel Martin at cush <dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: bzip2 for source packages?
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
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  Daniel> I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using
  Daniel> bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of thing.  Is this
  Daniel> true is it just FUD?

IIRC that was the case for bzip compression. Bzip2 was rewritten to avoid it.

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