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Re: [Devel] Supported Compression Algorithms.
From: |
Albert Chin |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Supported Compression Algorithms. |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:39:19 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:23:19PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 17 o'clock on Feb 26, Albert Chin wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD compress uses zopen(3) which is covered by the 4-clause BSD
> > license, incompatible with the GPL.
>
> I've been led to believe that one of NetBSD or OpenBSD has a version under
> the 3-clause license.
NetBSD:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/compress/zopen.c?rev=1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
BTW, this is essentially the same as what ships with FreeBSD/OpenBSD.
Did UCB change the license?
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albert chin (address@hidden)