COPYRIGHT
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BZIP is distributed under the GNU General Public License version
2; for details, see the file LICENSE. Pointers to the algorithms
used are in ALGORITHMS.

COMMERCIAL USE
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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.

	Julian Seward <sewardj@cs.man.ac.uk>
	Manchester, UK
	18 July 1996 (version 0.15)
	25 August 1996 (version 0.21)