changing bzip2 in default distribution?

[Heiko Wundram (Beenic)]

Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 23:04:57 schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
> why bzip2 is still used.
>
> grzip from ports (archivers/grzip) is much faster and compresses much
> better and it's not GNU licenced

bzip2 isn't GNU licensed, just to get things straight (straight from 
www.bzip.org):

"""...because it's open-source (BSD-style license), and, as far as I know, 
patent-free. (To the best of my knowledge. I can't afford to do a full patent 
search, so I can't guarantee this. Caveat emptor). So you can use it for 
whatever you like. Naturally, the source code is part of the distribution."""

-- 
Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development