Re: ITP: mscompress
The license is GPLv2.
The algorithm is LZ77, which I believe is unencumbered but if anyone
knows otherwise please let me know.
Regards,
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:09:29AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:38:38PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > mscompress also includes msexpand. They are command line utilities to
> > compress/expand files compressed by Windows(tm). If you've seen any file
> > on a DOS/Windows machine with an underscore at the end, you know what
> > I'm talking about. Example: file.xyz becomes file.xy_ when compressed.
> > It's butt-ugly but the files are out there, and it's nice not to need
> > Windows to extract the data out of them. :-)
>
> What's the license on this tool?
>
> Is the compression algorithm patented or otherwise encumbered?
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