Re: Compressed distributions

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 19:23

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In article <7276@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>I've decided to release a copylefted NFS server
>for DOS called SOSS using ZOO, rather than compress/tar, because it's
>clearly in the public domain.

Only the sources for the compression module is. The compression itself
is Lempel-Ziv, and unless it is LZ77 or a derivative [e.g. LZSS in LHA(rc)
utility], it too contains an algorithm that is patented. 

oz

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