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	Yerrick on Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:45:01 GMT)
Subject:	Re: A remark about unzip32
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:45:01 GMT
> 
> >I think unzip in its DJGPP version should simply reuse the code from
> >DJTAR.  (With minor changes, the same code is in the DJGPP ports of
> >GNU Tar and cpio.)
> 
> That would make the whole unzip package GPL.  Info-ZIP wants to keep
> its software under an MIT-like license.

If the code is not copied verbatim, but rather rewritten implementing
the same ideas, GPL is not an issue.  The name conversions performed
by DJTAR are documented in utils.info.

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