Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:05:42 +0400 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> Subject: Re: lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6) Message-ID: <20080421190501.GG88801@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <20080416030753.GA56826@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <200804151709.03452.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <200804152151.07444.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20080416022153.GA56554@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <200804152235.35820.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20080416030753.GA56826@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:07:54PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:35:30PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > ???????? 15 ??????? 2008 10:21 ??, Brooks Davis ?? ????????: > > > Sadly, the author's licensing terms will limit the adoption of lzma. > > > The BSD license is well established as the most restrictive acceptable > > > license for successful, widely adopted compression schemes. > > I wouldn't necessicairly be opposed to seeing support for tar.lzma files > in bsd.port.mk, but I don't think lzma has a signficant future if the > licensing policy remains as is (i.e. complex and not clearly defined in > the source files). == qouth lzma.txt == SPECIAL EXCEPTION #3: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits you to use code of the following files: BranchTypes.h, LzmaTypes.h, LzmaTest.c, LzmaStateTest.c, LzmaAlone.cpp, LzmaAlone.cs, LzmaAlone.java as public domain code. ==================== Without a more careful look, it sounds like enough to integrate lzma in libarchive.
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