Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "y.volta" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     i've made a little patch for pkziped ( deflate mode ) file. by
>> using this, we can have both gunzip and pkunzip supported: they have
>> only header different with the same file. ;-)
>>
>>     please note, if your file is too small, pkzip will not compress it
>> but store the orginal data to the output file.
>
> Isn't this patented?
>
> --
> Marco
>
Hello!
Correct.
The name Pkzip is indeed copyrighted, by the firm who created the
original tools.

However the zip and unzip methods aren't and are freely available from
where ever the Info-Zip people live online.

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