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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!129.35.248.10!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com!news@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com From: nobody@read.my.sig (Joerg Pommnitz) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 30 Jan 1997 16:36:00 GMT Organization: IBM Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5cqilg$17ea@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EE0B70.1657@ml.com> <5claa2$jq1@cynic.portal.ca> <32f342b7.11963784@uns.bris.ac.uk> <5cnqsl$78o@cynic.portal.ca> Reply-To: nobody@read.my.sig (Joerg Pommnitz) NNTP-Posting-Host: a17.raleigh.ibm.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154683 comp.os.linux.networking:66397 comp.os.linux.setup:94251 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5762 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2068 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51182 comp.os.os2.advocacy:263919 In <5cnqsl$78o@cynic.portal.ca>, cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: >It does now, but it doesn't do it with the original, GPL'd code, >does it? All this means is that either the original author spent >time rewriting code that was already written, rather than spending >that time on other features, or someone else out there re-wrote >the GPL'd code, rather than contributing new free software to the >world. (In fact, the latter is the case with NetBSD; we're right >now wasting time writing a front end for the free zlib so that we >can have a free gzip instead of an encumbered one. This is time >that would otherwise be spent writing other free software.) A few facts from the zlib homepage: zlib> zlib was written by Jean-loup Gailly (compression) and Mark Adler zlib> (decompression). Jean-loup is also the primary author/maintainer zlib> of gzip(1), the author of the comp.compression FAQ list and the zlib> former maintainer of Info-ZIP's Zip; Mark is also the author of zlib> gzip's and UnZip's main decompression routines and was the zlib> original author of Zip. Not surprisingly, the compression algorithm zlib> used in zlib is essentially the same as that in gzip and Zip, namely, zlib> the `deflate' method that originated in PKWARE's PKZIP 2.x. and: zlib> Upcoming versions of gzip and UnZip will also use zlib. -- Joerg Pommnitz |Joerg@Raleigh.ibm.com| Never attribute to malloc Mobile/Wireless |Dept UMRA | that which can be adequately T/L (919)254-6397|Office B502/E117 | explained by stupidity.