Info-Zip is still not free [Re: Intent to Develop: unzip]
IANAL and IDSFD, but ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/license.html
does have one "oh, but..". Anybody know if they're working on
fixing this?:
> Exceptions
>
> The license given above covers only Info-ZIP's code. There is
> one file in the UnZip distribution that is covered by a separate
> copyright and license:
>
> unreduce.c
>
> This is the only remaining trace of Samuel H. Smith's original
> 1989 code, and its license explicitly prohibits commercial use
> and requires distribution of source code if the code is used
> in another program. See the comments in the file for details.
Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Info-Zip's zip and unzip will be DFSG-compliant very soon.
> See:
>
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/license.html
>
> for details.
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