Hello! Perhaps. But then again perhaps the crew from PKWare might also have been confusing the issue. That's what comes from the problem of presenting software via a clone who only knows how to present things, not properly explain them.
I do know that we should call the module simply zip and support the basic methods behind how the zip and unzip programs work on most Linux distributions. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:grub-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Gerards > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:54 AM > To: The development of GRUB 2 > Subject: Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio > > "Gregg Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> "y.volta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
