GNU Gzip

GNU Gzip is a data compression program written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project, with Mark Adler writing the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm. Gzip is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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  • replacement for compress because of the Unisys and IBM patents Source: www.gnu.org

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