Re: bzip2 for source packages?

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Subject: Re: bzip2 for source packages?
From: Daniel Martin at cush <dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:40:24 -0400
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In-reply-to: James Troup's message of "18 Apr 1998 18:40:30 +0100"
References: <[🔎] 199804181514.JAA04318@chunks.gag.com> <[🔎] ylfjvhs7c9z1.fsf@law.miami.edu> <[🔎] dmmn2djowoh.fsf@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>

James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk> writes:

> Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@law.miami.edu> writes:
> 
> > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
> > appropriate, though?
> 
I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using bzip2
in the US - software patent, that sort of thing.  Is this true is it
just FUD?


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