From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: cl81@gmx.net (Christian Ludwig)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: bzip2 patent status query
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:54:51 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207101554.QAA07949@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003d01c22819$ba1818b0$1c6fa8c0@hyper> from "Christian Ludwig" at Jul 10, 2002 03:57:27 PM
Is bzip2 *definitely* patent-unencumbered?
It claims to be on it's home page, but I found this from the OpenBSD people:
http://www.openbsd.org/2.8_packages/m68k/bzip-0.21.tgz-long.html
> I think it's time to have bzip2 support in the kernel. I know the discussion
> about the speed and memory issues that are around with this. But everything
> in this patch is optional. You may use these new features if you want, you
> do not have to use them...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-10 15:47 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 ` jbradford [this message]
2002-07-10 16:48 ` bzip2 patent status query 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
[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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