[altairprime]

Pkware might not have been so forgiving if someone had released ZIP2. Incrementing the version number like that is only an acceptable thing in relatively unusual circumstances, but does happen sometimes; and still, I would really hesitate to say that it’s a good idea for a third party to call itself bzip3.

The original author replaced their own bzip release with bzip2 to avoid a patent issue with arithmetic coding, so this is the first time a third party has done so: https://web.archive.org/web/19980704181204/http://www.muraro...

So if the release of bzip3 is approved by the current maintainer, then I guess it’s fine, but otherwise it makes me uncomfortable to consider using under this name.