From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:42:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sh5s3qie.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1r4dm7o.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:05:31 +0200)
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:05:31 +0200
>
> > 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.
>
> 7z is LGPL/public domain.
AFAIK, not all of the code that went into the Windows binary was under
that license. But maybe my information is stale, I simply avoid these
tools altogether, given the wealth of good formats supported by
bsdtar.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-12 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-12 15:09 rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist Uwe Brauer
2018-06-12 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12 15:58 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-06-12 16:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-06-12 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-12 17:03 ` Noam Postavsky
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