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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code.
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:51:27 +0100
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> I don't have any strong opinions here.  But if somebody feels that we really cannot
> have this program in Guix, then go ahead and revert it.
>
> In the meantime I will try to contact the authors and ask for clarification.  However
> since the project has been inactive for the last 13 years, I don't hold too much
> hope of getting a reply.

This appears to be free software (unlike the official unrar programme).
I don’t think we need to remove it from Guix.

~~ Ricardo