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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Improbable Missio
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Jaime E . Villate |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Improbable Mission |
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Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:54:35 +0000 |
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:42:08PM +0100, mathieu wrote:
> According to
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/unzip/
> unzip is licensed under the BSD license.
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> Here's the license
> ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/license.html
Yes, but it uses a patented algorithm. In Debian unzip is in the non-free
section.
I guess that distributing a zip file for Windows users is more acceptable
since they are going to use proprietary software anyway, and I think that's
what some GNU packages do, but even though tar and gzip work perfectly well
under Windows.
Cheers,
Jaime