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bzip2

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bzip2

Summary

bzip2 is a compression software[1]. bzip2 draws 814 Wikipedia views per month (compression_software category, ranking #2 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • bzip2's instance of is recorded as compression software[3].
  • bzip2's instance of is recorded as command-line tool[4].
  • bzip2's developer is recorded as Julian Seward[5].
  • bzip2's copyright license is recorded as BSD licenses[6].
  • bzip2's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[7].
  • bzip2's operating system is recorded as cross-platform[8].
  • bzip2's software version identifier is recorded as 1.0.6[9].
  • bzip2's software version identifier is recorded as 1.0.8[10].
  • bzip2 is used for data compression[11].
  • July 18, 1996 marks the founding of bzip2[12].
  • bzip2's official website is recorded as https://sourceware.org/bzip2/[13].
  • bzip2's readable file format is recorded as bzip2 Archive[14].
  • bzip2's writable file format is recorded as bzip2 Archive[15].
  • bzip2's source code repository URL is recorded as https://sourceware.org/git/bzip2.git[16].
  • bzip2's source code repository URL is recorded as https://gitlab.com/bzip2/bzip2[17].
  • bzip2's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/bzip2[18].
  • bzip2's user manual URL is recorded as http://bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-manual-1.0.5.html[19].
  • bzip2's uses is recorded as Burrows–Wheeler transform[20].
  • bzip2's uses is recorded as move-to-front transform[21].
  • bzip2's uses is recorded as Huffman coding[22].
  • bzip2's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted, dedicated to the public domain by copyright holder[23].

Why It Matters

bzip2 draws 814 Wikipedia views per month (compression_software category, ranking #2 of 15).[2] bzip2 has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] bzip2 is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

cross-platform Julian Seward Mathematica

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . bzip.org. bzip.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . sourceware.org. Retrieved . sourceware.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . sourceware.org. Retrieved . sourceware.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · ~2026-44929-96 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright status → copyrighted, dedicated to the public domain by copyright holder
    License → —
    Writable file format → bzip2 Archive
    Copyright license → BSD licenses
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