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authorThomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>1997-11-20 08:18:41 +0000
committerThomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>1997-11-20 08:18:41 +0000
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parentUpgrade to 0.82. (diff)
Import bzip2 port. bzip2 is a block-sorting compressor with better
compression than gzip. The author believes that this program uses only patent-free algorithms. The generated files are not compatible to bzip-compressed files.
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=8720
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+This is bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.
+
+From the README:
+
+ To the best of my knowledge, bzip2 does not use any patented
+ algorithms. However, I do not have the resources available to
+ carry out a full patent search. Therefore I cannot give any
+ guarantee of the above statement.
+
+ Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>