From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:02:42 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] bzip2 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fa5b20d6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat Dec 29 05:31:39 EST 2012, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote: > > is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when > >> the bzip2 utilities are built but not copied to /$objtype/lib? > > ... > > the question i have is, why isn't bzip2 part of libflate? > > /sys/src/cmd/bzip2/LICENSE might offer a clue. it appears to be a reworked four-clause bsd license. (drop notice on binary distribution; add notice of alteration.) wikipedia claims that bzip2 is open source. maybe i'm missing something, but i don't see the problem with the license. is there something specific you see? - erik