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Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-ali
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:42:49 +0300 |
> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:05:31 +0200
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> > 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.
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> 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.