From: richter@nic.cerf.net (Adam J. Richter) Subject: Re: Use of zip instead of compress Date: 19 Oct 1992 04:08:36 GMT
[Please do not respond to this posting with legal speculation
unless you are a lawyer or you are directly quoting a legal reference.]
Some of the code in zip and unzip currently has a copyright
notice that prohibits these programs from being "sold for profit or
included with other software that is sold for profit," or carries the
demand, "Do not use any of this in a commercial product."
According to the unzip/COPYING file, the people on the Info-Zip
mailing list have been unable to contact one of the authors who attached
one of these restrictions, so they're slowly working on replacing the
restricted code. Until commercially free versions of zip and unzip are
available, I don't think that I could legally sell a CDROM distribution
that included these programs.
-- Adam J. Richter 409 Evelyn Avenue, Apt. 312 Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated Albany, CA 94706 richter@cerf.net (510)528-3209 Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu).