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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.



  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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