Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:47:13 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), jkh@time.cdrom.com, tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za, Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199601161547.IAA04366@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199601160800.SAA28580@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199601160546.WAA03311@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199601160800.SAA28580@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> > Do you want a library instead of just calling the zip/unzip utils and > > parsing the output? Although I think the latter would be much slower, > > it would avoid you having to GPL your package tools, and avoid > > 'Yet-Another' GPL utility in the tree. > > Er, have you actually looked at the ZIP license? It's definitely not a > GPL toy. > > Unpack the 'unzip' source archive and read the COPYING file. Just > because it's called COPYING doesn't mean GPL 8) Re-read the license. Just because it doesn't claim to be the GPL doesn't mean it's not following the same 'form' as the GPL. They are very similar licenses. Nate
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