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Subject: Re: Not quite so off topic (compressing table bases)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:55:00 01/03/06

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On January 03, 2006 at 17:18:13, Alessandro Scotti wrote:

>On January 03, 2006 at 10:41:53, Ratko V Tomic wrote:
>
>>It may appear as an off topic post, but folks here encoding tablebases may wish
>>to check it out (see the source code on the QI web page). For that type of data
>>the QI is much better than Huffman or Arithmetic coding.
>
>Hi Ratzo,
>congratulations for an exceptional and very important result! I think there may
>soon be news in some data compression programs so I have a question: is this
>algorithm patent free? I must ask because if I remember correctly Arithmetic
>Coding (among others) is protected by a patent and many free programs had to use
>Huffman or some other sub-par algorithm.

There is a license.txt file that seems to indicate that the algorithm may be
used for non-commercial purposes.



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