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Explain more clearly why users might need to install this port.

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Mention the fact that bzip2 sometimes compresses less efficiently.
Remove the WWW: line, since the listed site has no information about
this port.  Credit the author for text taken from his README.
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Please use bzip2, which is the successor of this older bzip version.
This port stays for compatibility reasons. A discussion of the
advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 is given on the homepage.
Use of bzip2, which is intended to replace bzip, is recommended.
The algorithms used in bzip2 are different and incompatible with
those used in bzip. To open .bz archives, you must use bzip, and
to open .bz2 archives you must use bzip2. Although bzip2 sometimes
yields slightly larger output, it is faster, more reliable, maintained,
much more widely used and is believed to be patent-free.
In short: bzip2 is faster, more reliable and *patent free*
Julian Seward, the author of bzip, gives this warning:
COMMERCIAL USE of bzip
This program may or may not infringe certain US patents pertaining
to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting transformation itself.
Opinions differ as to the precise legal status of some of the
algorithms used. Nevertheless, you should be aware that commercial
use of this program could render you liable to unfriendly legal
action.
WWW: http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
This program may or may not infringe certain US patents
pertaining to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting
transformation itself. Opinions differ as to the precise
legal status of some of the algorithms used. Nevertheless,
you should be aware that commercial use of this program
could render you liable to unfriendly legal action.