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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/compression.scm | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index 0536cd9ed9..df0acd9cc2 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -80,13 +80,7 @@ in compression.") ;; FIXME: The test suite wants `less', and optionally Perl. '(#:tests? #f)) (description - "gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by Jean-loup -Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. - -We developed this program as a replacement for compress because of the Unisys -and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by compress. These patents -made it impossible for us to use compress, and we needed a replacement. The -superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus.") + "GNU Gzip is a data compression and decompression program.") (license license:gpl3+) (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/"))) |