Jason Thorpe writes:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:19:00 +1100 
>  Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>  > unfortunately, this code is GPL (this is before i decided i liked the
>  > BSD license better) and can't be used as it stands in libc/libutil.
> 
> Um, if you own copyright on the code, you can release under any license
> you wish, at any time.

yeah, but i can't recall exactly how much of the code i contributed
to gzip is mine and how much is Jean Loup's. (this was >5 years ago,
i didn't use revision control then, and i can't find any reference in
my old mail archives (which were sparse back then too)).