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0 pointspalaiologos4y ago0 comments

Frankly, same holds for gzip. I've been planning to relicense bzip3 with the more permissive LGPLv3.

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gzip has BSD-licensed compatible alternatives already. It's doubtful the same attention would be given to bzip3; chicken-and-egg scenario there. Plus the lingering question of "Why not zstd?"

trasz4y ago

Gzip is just a frontend for zlib, which is BSD(ish).

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