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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:57:08 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@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:  <20080422135708.GB22905@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080422103434.GE54610@amilo.cenkes.org>
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:34:39PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:42:24PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > That's well hidden (DOC/lzam.txt in the tarball).  Someone
> > should produce some sort of lzma-lite distribution that only
> > does the basics.  Then this could be a practical option.
>=20
> Unfortunately, a closer look dispelled the hope. The
> public-domained files only show how to use the GPL'ed ones. I had
> a conversation with the author, who is worried about incompatible
> formats being spawned if he releases lzma from under LGPL. He
> might change his mind in the future, though.

Too bad. :(  FWIW, I don't see any significant, incompatible competitors
to bzip2 or ogg vorbis (for example).

-- Brooks

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