Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 13:44:26 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@sri.MT.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za, Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199601170314.NAA01243@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601161547.IAA04366@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 16, 96 08:47:13 am
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > 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. Huh? This I just don't follow. Their license and copyrights look (to me) nothing like the GPL at all. They all boil down to "do what you like with this code, as long as you don't try to lock the source code away". There's no requirement that other code aggregated with it fall under the same restrictions, or (except in the case of _commercial_applications_, which FreeBSD is not) the provision of any form of associated service. I can't see how using Info-Zip's code in a package tool would cause license complications. Naturally, I'm open to reeducation 8) > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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