Re: status of bzip
On 11 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
: Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com> writes:
:
: > > Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
: > > anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
: > > bzip when searching :-(
: > The last time it was seen in non-us distribution.
:
: Because of the patent issue presumably. I've always thought that was
: inconsistent as we have plenty of lzw/gif software in non-free, NOT
: non-us.
:
:
: Guy
I thought the bzip algorithm was the issue ... isn't it "patented" or
some such nonsense in the US, while the rest of the world doesn't
believe in such patents? (Same issue as RSA ...)
Of course, I could be delirious and wrong, you never can tell.
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