license issues in java library

Sat Oct 12 04:53:00 GMT 2002

Hi,

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 01:59, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> writes:
> 
> Joe> The steering committee received the following from Brian Youmans
> Joe> at the FSF.  Evidently there are problems with two files:
> 
> >> the file fastjar/dostime.c
> 
> We'll need to rewrite this.  I'll put it on my to-do list.

Note that the latest version of the fileio.c file from Info-ZIP, that is
where these functions were lifted from, contains the following copyright
notice. LICENSE attached. Seems free and GPL compatible, but someone
should check restrictions 3 and 4.

    Copyright (c) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP.  All rights reserved.

    See the accompanying file LICENSE, version 1999-Oct-05 or later
    (the contents of which are also included in zip.h) for terms of use.
    If, for some reason, both of these files are missing, the Info-ZIP
    license also may be found at: 
    ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/license.html

Complete source archive (zip23.tar.gz) available from:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/Zip.html#Sources

Cheers,

Mark

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