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| author | Thomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-20 08:18:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-20 08:18:41 +0000 |
| commit | 8c43e0b76f0061eb148b3fd54a59caeb52778d6e (patch) | |
| tree | b11577b8265ff2c3704e622e35e50aeb0ffa7b71 /archivers/bzip2/pkg-descr | |
| parent | Upgrade 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.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=8720
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diff --git a/archivers/bzip2/pkg-descr b/archivers/bzip2/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..95d296dfe487 --- /dev/null +++ b/archivers/bzip2/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +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> |