Messages in this thread | | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | bzip2 patent status query | Date | Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:54:51 +0100 (BST) |
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Is bzip2 *definitely* patent-unencumbered?
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
> I think it's time to have bzip2 support in the kernel. I know the discussion > about the speed and memory issues that are around with this. But everything > in this patch is optional. You may use these new features if you want, you > do not have to use them... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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