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Subject: Re: RFC#8 - bzip2
From: "Marco Peereboom" <slash () peereboom ! us>
Date: 2003-02-26 15:05:29
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Isn't bzip's algorithm patented?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ports@openbsd.org
> [mailto:owner-ports@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Ed White
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 04:03
> To: ports@openbsd.org
> Subject: RFC#8 - bzip2
>
>
>
> Request to import bzip2 in the official src tree.
>
> Reading /policy.html and looking at the src tree layout is
> clear that GPLed
> software is used only if there aren't alternative ways.
> Looking at bzip2 I found out that this software seems to have a full
> compatible license and it gives better compression than gzip.
> It is already used by some ports to decompress distfiles and
> could give a lot
> of advantages (RFC#9).
>
> Look at how many Mbytes you could save downloading 3.3 snapshots:
>
> base33 (tgz) 30903567 (bz2) 24120264
> comp33 (tgz) 16590617 (bz2) 13837916
> etc33 (tgz) 1500604 (bz2) 1232789
> man33 (tgz) 6128578 (bz2) 4685742
> misc33 (tgz) 1748521 (bz2) 1712209
>
> In this case a patch to pax/tar should be developed, but a
> pipe can work in
> the meantime.
> Obviously also packages could be built using bzip2 saving
> again a lot of
> bandwidth and storage space.
>
> However, all this ways of using bzip2 are only examples, at
> the moment I'm
> only saying that bzip2 seems to have a better license and
> performance than
> gzip, so I'm asking to include it in the dafult src tree.
>
>
> Ed
>
>
> # RFC @ hacking.openbsd.it
>
>
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