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From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Decompression licensing (was Greed, nee DPMS info)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:27:33 -0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

I have been using InfoZip for some time and never had a problem
unzipping old zip files from pkzip 2.04g.

Note also that latest version of InfoZip has LFN suport, making it
the _only_ 100% free archiever that you can use in batch files
(I said this once on this list and some people disagreed, but
all alternatives they suggested were shareware _not_ free)
I tested files archieved by InfoZip (zip.exe vers. 2.3) and it
was compatible with all Windows programs I could test :-)).

Don't forget ENZIP (available at www.download.com ) which is
a very good WinZip equivalent (better in some ways) and is
also 100% free.

Alain

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Da Silva, Joe <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
Para: 'opendos AT delorie DOT com' <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Data: Domingo, 10 de Dezembro de 2000 22:46
Assunto: RE: Decompression licensing (was Greed, nee DPMS info)


>UNRAR can be distributed and used for free.
>
>PKUNZIP can only be distributed by a company or individual
>which has purchased a "distribution license", which costs
>US$99 for the Windoze 9X "commercial" command-line version
>or US$299 for the DOS "professional" command-line version
>(no, I don't know what "commercial" or "professional" mean,
>nor whether the Windoze 9X command-line versions runs under
>normal DOS).
>
>You should also be able to distribute the shareware versions of
>PKZIP (also RAR), in the normal "shareware" manner, but probably
>_not_ bundled with any commercial software. The recipient can
>then use this shareware version for evaluation purposes only (I
>guess that's sufficient for a "once-off" use; they can register it
>if they want to continue using it, for their own purposes).
>
>So, there are _some_ options for distributing the PKZIP stuff,
>depending on the circumstances ... You can also distribute the
>InfoZip (UnZip) version, in which case you should probably also
>use this for compression (or at least check that it will UnZip
>your file first - the InfoZip stuff is a sub-set of the PKZIP stuff).
>
>Joe.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bernie [SMTP:bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se]
>> Sent: Sunday, 10 December 2000 2:45
>> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>> Subject: Re: Greed (was DPMS info)
>>
>> UnRar is licensed free (AFAIK anyway). PkUnZip is shareware, and
can't be
>> distributed alone (legally that is). UnZip is released under GPL on
the
>> other hand, but I haven't used it much so I can't say anything about
it.
>>
>> Patrick wrote:
>> (And no this isn't a flame)
>> >I would assume that this is the
>> >same as including PKUNZIP or UNRAR and other such utilities with
>> software.
>> >It is free, you do not have to refister it and you do not have to
pay for
>> >it.
>> //Bernie
>