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Re: bzip / bgzip
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Erez wrote:
Erez> I heard some one here talking about a new binary compression
Erez> utility, called bzip or bgzip .
Erez>
Erez> is it GPLd ? where can i download it from ?
Erez>
Erez> regards erez
Bzip2: http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
License: GNU
Bzip2 unlike Bzip is Patent Free. (Bzip2 is just next version of bzip)
"Patent-free! (I hope; see statement above). bzip-0.21 used
arithmetic coding; bzip2 uses Huffman coding, which is generally
regarded as non-problematic from a patent standpoint. Both programs
are based on the Burrows-Wheeler transform, but, to the best of my
knowledge, that's not patented either."
borik
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