On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:34:31PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>     IIRC one of the algorithms that can be used in zip is lzw which is (or
> was) patented.  

The patent expired in 2003.

        http://www.sslug.dk/patent/lzwunisys.html
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