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Subject: Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio
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"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