Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

[Jack Kelly]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> OTOH, wasn't it likely for some of the compressions that only the
> decompressor is installed, due to them being separate packages with
> separate licenses or so?

Maybe you're thinking of compress?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress says a patent (now expired) was
granted on it, and I seem to recall hearing somewhere that only
compression (and not decompression) was patented.

This was all way before my time, so consumption with salt advised.

-- Jack