Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi>]

On to, 2007-04-12 at 10:12 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to
> > bzip2.
> 
> Why not lzma?  It reduces size even more and doesn't suffer from the "all our
> code belongs to propietary programs" licensing curse.

I'm ignorant of compression programs. What licensing curse are you
referring to here?

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