From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:54:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsil9r5h.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18d205ed0808111203s6aba398gdbd8013fbc1eeeb7@mail.gmail.com> (Gregg Levine's message of "Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:03:14 -0400")
"Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> "y.volta" <y.volta@gmail.com> 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.
You are confusing copyright and patents, they are a different thing
:-)
But if people say it is no longer patented, zip is fine for me.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <48a04fce.3c432c0a.185e.ffffe7e9SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
2008-08-11 15:41 ` [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio y.volta
2008-08-11 16:56 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-11 17:22 ` Marco Gerards
2008-08-11 19:03 ` Gregg Levine
2008-08-13 9:54 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2008-08-13 22:30 ` Gregg C Levine
2008-08-11 21:29 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-11 21:26 ` Robert Millan
[not found] <48a0e742.34062c0a.1348.ffffe488SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
2008-08-12 2:02 ` y.volta
2008-08-12 2:45 ` Bean
2008-08-12 19:07 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-13 1:31 ` Bean
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