The best zip library with public domain license [closed]

Answer 1

Public Domain is the LZMA sdk from 7z http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Problem: the documentation is "not existing" :-(

Answer 2

It's not public domain, but Minizip, which is included with zlib, meets your other three requirements. It also contains miniunz.c, a very easy to follow zip/unzip example.

Answer 3

I'd recommend ZipLib.

Personal reasons why I love this project:

• built around c++11 stl streams (e.g. decompresses into STL streams!)
• lightweight (no dependencies other than zlib)
• can be used on both windows & linux

It took me a long time to find this project -- hope this helps someone.

Answer 4

It didn't yet exist when the question was asked. But it does now: miniz - public domain, single C file, explicitly inspired by the likes of stb_image.

Answer 5

The closest I can think of would be Xz-utils, which uses the public domain LZMA SDK. It's not zip, per se, nor does it use the deflate algorithm, but it is one of the few compression libraries in the public domain.

Answer 6

The most popular open source zip implementation is Info-Zip. Deflate algorithm used in zip file format is implemented by zlib library. Both are released on liberal, BSD-like license, but not public domain.