From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 04:16:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA10464 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 04:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Daisy.ee.und.ac.za [146.230.192.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA10448 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 04:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za by daisy.ee.und.ac.za with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #31) id m0tbnkW-0007YDC; Mon, 15 Jan 96 14:10 GMT+0200 Received: by cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (/\==/\ Smail3.1.22.1 #22.20) id ; Mon, 15 Jan 96 14:10 SAT Message-Id: From: tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (Anthony Naggs) Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 To: Hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 15 Jan 96 14:10:03 SAT Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <16939.821639640@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 14, 96 9:14 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30] Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Copyrights. I don't particularly feel like tangling with either PKWARE > or UniSys (LZ compression used in Zip). > > Jordan The InfoZip zip/unzip is fairly generous with their copyright conditions, and they are fairly confident that they are not violating UniSys' or PKWare's patents. In practice the only problem I've seen is with the huge cumulative directory that Zip files have at the end. On the on side the unzip software needs the directory for random access through the archive, on the other this makes things s..l..o..w when used with tape backup systems. Cheers, -- Anthony Naggs - Computer Security & Anti-Virus Engineer, CSIR, South Africa Disclaimer: these are my personal views and opinions, and do not represent my employers; past, present or future.