Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:01:15PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > It is not very bad thing if we can't create archives in formats like > ACE, ARJ, LHA or RAR with free software. But it is more important to Ideally, amavis needs access for all archive formats so it can check for viruses in E-Ma

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > When I run command "vrms" in my Debian GNU/Linux, most of those non-free > packages it finds are packers and/or unpackers. How about you? I like to > There may be patent issues. I'd check with the authors of the archivers. Additionally reading the

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:01:15PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > When I run command "vrms" in my Debian GNU/Linux, most of those non-free > packages it finds are packers and/or unpackers. While not the best team in their league, I think you'll find that even the Packers aren't so bad that the

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Clint Adams
> So, where is that public-domain software for extracting ZOO-files? > Somebody must find it and then create Debian-package of it. IMHO > creating new ZOO-archives is not very important for us. IIRC, the ZOO extracters were Ooz and Looz.

How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
When I run command "vrms" in my Debian GNU/Linux, most of those non-free packages it finds are packers and/or unpackers. How about you? I like to listen to music modules made under Amiga and many of those modules are distributed in Aminet as LHA-archives. Sometimes I use DOS and its software may b