Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:43:07 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: fencepost:/home/gp/gnulists/FTP-Site/md5sums.txt -- recent changes (fwd)
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This came up in a discussion about Windows ports being stored on the
GNU FTP site in ZIP format.  Previously, Richard Stallman was opposed
to using ZIP format because InfoZip's programs are not Free Software
in FSF's definition (its license limits what you can do if you modify
the sources).

Now that DJTAR can unpack ZIP archives, this problem is gone.

If someone feels like making DJTAR compile on Unix and GNU/Linux,
please work on that.

TIA
 
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:09:13 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: Re: fencepost:/home/gp/gnulists/FTP-Site/md5sums.txt -- recent changes
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    So I think .zip files are okay now.

I guess so.

    (Btw, if the GNU project wants a free unzip program, DJTAR can be
    ported to Unix and GNU/Linux systems as well.)

I think that would be useful.  It has now been 6 months since the
infozip people agreed to replace the non-free files, and when I ask
about the status of a new release I get no response at all.
Waiting for them seems like a bad idea.
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