From: "Christian Ludwig" <cl81@gmx.net>
To: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>, <jbradford@dial.pipex.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bzip2 patent status query
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:04:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002d01c22972$82c45270$1c6fa8c0@hyper> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207101810370.14432-100000@imladris.surriel.com
Rik van Riel wrote on Wednesday, July 10:
> As long as bitflipping and xor are patented, I guess there
> must be _something_ covering bzip2 ;)
Perhaps it is so, even the author does not know it exactly (but why doesn't
even he know it?).
Bzip2 is included in nearly every distribution I know. BUT, if there would
be a patent on bzip2, I think there would have been somebody already who
sued at least all bigger distributions. If I were the one having a patent on
bzip2, or only parts of it, I would not have let the chance to get rich go
by.
Have fun.
- Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-12 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-10 13:57 bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Christian Ludwig
2002-07-10 15:54 ` bzip2 patent status query jbradford
2002-07-10 16:48 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-10 17:37 ` jbradford
2002-07-10 17:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 17:26 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-10 21:11 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-12 7:04 ` Christian Ludwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20020711062832.GU1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
2002-07-11 7:21 ` bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Christian Ludwig
2002-07-11 17:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 6:36 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 7:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 8:32 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 8:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 10:12 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 12:01 ` jw schultz
2002-07-12 14:25 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-12 14:49 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-15 21:31 ` Horst von Brand
2002-07-16 12:01 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-12 12:37 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-13 13:56 ` john slee
2002-07-13 14:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 15:02 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-07-13 14:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 12:33 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 13:05 ` jbradford
2002-07-12 13:24 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-12 13:49 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 14:21 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-15 6:28 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-15 12:17 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-16 8:28 ` [PATCH] bzip2 compression for kernel 2.4 and ramdisk Christian Ludwig
2002-07-13 5:16 ` bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Mike Touloumtzis
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