Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:25:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> Cc: bf2006a@yahoo.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0811251123120.3927@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <492C3053.1030802@freebsd.org> References: <259774.68895.qm@web39105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <492C3053.1030802@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Where is the announcement of this change? > > I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the > sourceforge project pages all still say GPL. It is on the SDK page: http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html > bf wrote: >> Tim: >> >> There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original >> LZMA SDK, has placed the latest version, available at: >> >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2 >> >> into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it >> would seem suitable for adoption into the FreeBSD source tree in some >> form that could be integrated with bsdtar/libarchive. What do you >> think? It would be *really* nice to have this, since in many ways it >> is better than bzip2, and many projects have started to distribute >> code in lzma-compressed tarballs. It could help us save disk space >> and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in >> shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc. *snip* Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org
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