From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 8968@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8968: arc-mode 7z writing support
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:08:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r561nt9y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxgpmy40.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:09:51 +0300
>
> As reported in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/136578/focus=136670
> on cygwin the program name is "p7zip". But I can't confirm this fact,
> so I'm closing this feature request at its current state with the
> program name "7z".
In fact, I think any GNU/Linux system that cares about avoiding
non-free software will have only p7zip, not 7z. That's because
current releases of 7z are not Free Software, whereas p7zip uses the
free-software subset of the 7z algorithms.
So by supporting only 7z, let alone making that the default, Emacs is
in fact preferring a non-free software program to a free one. We have
the same situation with zip/unzip vs pkzip/pkunzip, and in that case
we do it the other way around: the default is the free software
variant, with the non-free one available as an option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-30 21:47 bug#8968: arc-mode 7z writing support Juri Linkov
2011-07-01 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-04 22:22 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 0:09 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-07-08 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 18:38 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-08 20:20 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-09 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-09 11:34 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-09 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-09 11:26 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-08 15:56 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-08 18:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-09 11:20 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-09 22:27 ` Juri Linkov
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