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by eb0la 2330 days ago
File compressors were non-free some time ago (Zip, ARJ, etc.) or at least shareware. I guess UPX executable compressor was also non-free.

Other non-free category are media encoders/decoders (with patents behind).

The other cmdline tool I remember it's non-free is tarsnap because there is a service behind.