Info-Zip is still not free [Re: Intent to Develop: unzip]

[David Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>]

IANAL and IDSFD, but ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/license.html
does have one "oh, but..".  Anybody know if they're working on
fixing this?:

> Exceptions 
>
> The license given above covers only Info-ZIP's code. There is 
> one file in the UnZip distribution that is covered by a separate 
> copyright and license: 
>
>     unreduce.c 
>
> This is the only remaining trace of Samuel H. Smith's original 
> 1989 code, and its license explicitly prohibits commercial use 
> and requires distribution of source code if the code is used 
> in another program. See the comments in the file for details. 


Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Info-Zip's zip and unzip will be DFSG-compliant very soon.
> See:
> 
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/license.html
> 
> for details.