El vie, 28-08-2009 a las 11:23 +0200, Simon Josefsson escribió: > Victor Cortiano <[email protected]> > writes: > > > Sam's answer is more complete than mine, but I think that, since there > > are already free implementations of zip, it's safe to say that it's a > > free format. I'm not aware of any functionality of ZIP that only exists > > in a proprietary program. >
The package unrar-free is free software, but it doesn't mean RAR is a free file format. > I would recommend use of TAR + GZ or possibly TAR + BZ2 instead. If > signing/encryption of data is required, use OpenPGP or S/MIME (PKCS#7). > Yes, the gzip software[1] and GZIP file format specification are free :) So, from now on, no ZIP! 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ 2. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952 _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
