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lbzip2 Project

lbzip2 is a parallel, SMP-based compression utility compatible with the bzip2 format, written by Laszlo Ersek and Mikolaj Izdebski. It is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. lbzip2 is free software that may be redistributed and/or modified under the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at the user's option) any later version.[1]

  2. lbzip2 is distributed without any warranty, including the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.[2]

  3. The README names Mikolaj Izdebski (2011–2015) and Laszlo Ersek (2008–2010) as copyright holders, and describes the tool as a parallel, bzip2-compatible compression utility.[3]

  4. The source distribution includes the full GNU GPL version 3 text in its COPYING file.[4]

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References

  1. lbzip2/README at master · kjn/lbzip2 · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. lbzip2/README at master · kjn/lbzip2 · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. lbzip2/README at master · kjn/lbzip2 · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. lbzip2/COPYING at master · kjn/lbzip2 · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
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