On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:44:46AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Truely, I wish to import bzip2 to -current src tree. :)
> Is there a problem about some restriction for distributing bzip2?
> # I'm sorry I don't know about that.

<2 5003-0> (00-01-22 12:27:37) [will@shadow /usr/ports/archivers/bzip2]%
cat pkg/DESCR
This is bzip2, a advanced block-sorting file compressor.  It is
believed to be free from any patents.

WWW: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/

Nope - looks like it could be a candidate for importing to the source
tree. However, I'm not sure everyone on current@ is going to agree,
since we already have something for compression (gzip) that is pretty
standard around the world.

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Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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