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maybe-ITP: bsdiff
- From: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>
- To: "[ML] CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:54:11 +0200
- Subject: maybe-ITP: bsdiff
Introduction straight from official home page[1]
> *bsdiff* and *bspatch* are tools for building and applying patches to
> binary files. By using suffix sorting (specifically, Larsson and
> Sadakane's qsufsort
> <http://www.cs.lth.se/Research/Algorithms/Papers/jesper5.ps>) and
> taking advantage of how executable files change, *bsdiff* routinely
> produces binary patches 50-80% smaller than those produced by Xdelta
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdelta/>, and 15% smaller than those
> produced by .RTPatch <http://www.pocketsoft.com/products.html> (a
> $2750/seat commercial patch tool).
Compiles fine on Cygwin.
Question is: IANAL, and I don't know if his BSDPL[2] license would be a
problem or not. Is it?
Lapo
Links:
1. http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
2. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/colin.percival/source/BSDPL.html
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