From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:43:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83fu1sovsh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgbkvy6n.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528818082 30980 195.159.176.226 (12 Jun 2018 15:41:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 17:41:18 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fSlQ5-0007yx-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:41:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56983 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSlSC-0003SO-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSlRp-0003G5-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSlRl-0003Iy-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSlRl-0003Ir-1l; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4007 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fSlRk-0000vI-G4; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:43:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgbkvy6n.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:09:36 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226260 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:09:36 +0200 > > I have set these variables for me in order to support these formats > (provided that the relevant rar and 7z programs are installed) > accordingly and I could provide a patch. But I would like to know, > whether there are copyright issues, when adding these external programs. Yes, AFAIK the full-featured versions that run on Windows are not Free Software, and the Free variants are not capable of opening archives one finds nowadays. But I think you could use bsdtar (from libarchive) which is Free Software, at least for 7z. (I never tried, so I don't know how capable it is.)