El jue, 27-08-2009 a las 20:32 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió: > Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: > > El mié, 26-08-2009 a las 22:22 -0300, Victor Cortiano escribió: > >> ZIP is fully documented since its creation, despite the first > >> implementation (PKZIP) being proprietary software. > > > > Where can I find that documentation? I only found a specification that I > > think is not free[1]. > > > > 1. http://www.pkware.com/support/zip-application-note > > It looks like that specification (more precisely [1]) is the full > documentation. But fully documented is not the same as free. > > The spec is published under plain old copyright, so unauthorized copying > is not allowed. That is at least annoying. But the bigger problem is > section X of the spec, which says that the implementation of certain > parts of it requires a license. However, I fail to see on what grounds > this requirement is based, as the spec doesn't refer to any patents. >
That's the part I don't like. > So I think we can say that it's not completely free. Free software that > uses it (IceCat, OpenOffice.org, OpenJDK) probably only implements the > "safe" parts. > > [1] http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT > I'll go to read about gzip instead. Thanks. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
