Re: LZW compression in Java

Jeff Kesselman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.java.advanced
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Brian Maso wrote:
>>
>> Anyone aware of any Open Source libraries for doing LZW compression
>> in Java
>> ?
You wont find any.

Thats because LZW per se is controlled by a patent owned by Univac.

If at all possible use another, open compression algorithm.  There are
many available.

JK

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