Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 May 2006 04:55:06 +0200 | From | Stefan Smietanowski <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
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Nuri Jawad wrote: > Hi, > just wanted to remark that I never liked that bzip was replaced by bzip2 > (were there license issues?) since bzip's compression was/is often > stronger:
bzip was (possibly) infringing a patent so a method bzip used was removed and subsequently bzip2 was created.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1997/12/msg00778.html
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