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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: bzip2 patent status query
To: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:48:02 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cl81@gmx.net (Christian Ludwig), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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jbradford@dial.pip writes:

> Is bzip2 *definitely* patent-unencumbered?

You could ask a lawyer and hope he's right...

> It claims to be on it's home page, but I found this from the OpenBSD people:
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/2.8_packages/m68k/bzip-0.21.tgz-long.html

...but that's not bzip2. It's the original bzip, which used
an arithmetic encoding in the final stage. The bzip2 program
won't even read files created with bzip.