Compress command and the old BuilCD application on Red Hat Enterprise 4 WS

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On 9/16/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't recommend "compress" as it used an algorithm that has some
> copyright problems (Honeywell-Bull was insisting on license fees not
> too far back).  It's better to use gzip (which uses Lempel-Ziv, is
> copyright-free and compresses better than "compress") or bzip2 (which
> is also copyright-free and compresses better than gzip).  The vast
> majority of modern systems have gzip available, and most also have
> bzip2.

I think you are recalling patent issues. All of these programs have copyrights.

John