[Tutor] Re: LHA compression

[lonetwin]

Hi Sean,
	I looked at the license in the sources bundled with the .src.rpm, it says 
"License: Freeware-like" ...wonder what that means ...the homepage of the 
author and for his "lha for unix page" is in japanese, So, I'm lost.
    Anyways, I most certainly would be using it for "non-commercial use" 
Maybe this is inspiration enough to seriously think about writing a "free" 
python module for lha compression, like dman suggested. Anyone wanna jump in 
?? ...Me being me, I'd get down to __actually__ doing instead of just 
thinking, if I have work with someone else. :)
	Right away tho' I need to find out if the algo. itself is not patented or 
propriety.

Ta for now,
Peace
Steve

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 12:14 pm, you wrote:
> >       Anyways, I discovered lha is available for most linux distros (free
> > too ...does debian really have it non free ???). So I guess it's ok.
> > Although, not having to build a dependency on lha would have been nice.
>
> non-free simply means it does not have a 100% free license.  It does not
> imply cost.  Without downloading it and looking at the license I could not
> tell you why.  My guess is it either has a "free for non-commerical use" or
> "free but don't change it" style license.

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