From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 11:04:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00780 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:04:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00774 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA01427; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:06:54 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:06:54 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601151906.MAA01427@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <3060.821713313@time.cdrom.com> References: <273.821697627@critter.tfs.com> <3060.821713313@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > we have unzip in the kernel... > > Well, yeah, but we can still take it out easily - it's controlled by a > kernel option, and not critical to system function. It's critical to the install of the system unfortunately. :( > What happens if > we make every package a zip file then get a nasty note? We've got all > those packages rendered sort of useless. Then you need to redesign our install as well. :( > Also, as a point of fact, I thought the unzip we were using was just > the uncompression part, not the unarchiving part. The unarchiving part is *completely* free from PKware since Phil posted everything that was used publically to get folks to buy his software in the claim that it was a freely available algorithm. Basically, you should buy his stuff cause it's faster than anyone elses. I suspect his copyright problems with the ARC stuff caused him to do this. I suspect (though I'm no lawyer obviously) that we are pretty safe in using zip for the pkg tools. WC already ships out 'billions and billions' (I always wanted to say that in a sentence) of disks which contain zip archives and many which contain the source code to the InfoZip utilities. Nate