Licensing information

ZipArchive library - creation, modification and decompression of "zip" format archives
Copyright © 2000 - 2006 Tadeusz Dracz.


E-Mail: tdracz@artpol-software.com
Web: http://www.artpol-software.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA


An English version of the GNU GPL is in the gpl.txt file distributed with this project. Translations to other languages are available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Distributing ZipArchive under GNU GPL implies ZipArchive can only be used with software that is licensed under conditions compliant with the GPL. Embedding in proprietary software requires an alternative license.

Alternative license for use with proprietary software

If you want to distribute software in a commercial context that incorporates ZipArchive and you do not want to meet the conditions of GNU GPL (e.g. an obligation to provide a customer with the source code of your software that uses the ZipArchive library), you need to acquire a commercial license.

The commercial license is available free of charge for using ZipArchive library in:

Extended Licence for HBZLIB (library for zip compression in Harbour)
You can create proprietary software using hbzlib respecting the follow:

There is a fee for the commercial license for using the library in the software not falling into the mentioned categories.
It is recommended that you should print two copies of the commercial license document after you receive it, sign them and send by post. One copy, signed by the author will be sent back to you. Please contact the author or visit the Artpol Software web site to find out more.


ZipArchive Copyright © 2000 - 2006 Tadeusz Dracz . Generated at Fri Apr 7 13:55:25 2006.