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Please use bzip2, which is the successor of this older bzip version.
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This port stays for compatibility reasons. A discussion of the
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advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 is given on the homepage.
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In short: bzip2 is faster, more reliable and *patent free*
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This program may or may not infringe certain US patents pertaining
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to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting transformation itself.
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Opinions differ as to the precise legal status of some of the
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algorithms used. Nevertheless, you should be aware that commercial
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use of this program could render you liable to unfriendly legal
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action.
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[This package contains a DECOMPRESS-ONLY version, bunzip, which
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provides less legal problems than the full bzip program.]
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