Where is the announcement of this change?
I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the
sourceforge project pages all still say GPL.
Tim
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.
Regards,
b.
--- On Thu, 3/6/08, bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bsdtar/libarchive
To: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 1:52 PM
Yes, the LZMA implementations that I have seen are
LGPL, CPL, and/or GPL:
http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
http://tukaani.org/lzma/
I will inquire if anyone knows of a BSD-licensed
alternative. I was hoping that portmgr would make
some minimal changes to encourage people to take
advantage of the LZMA port distfiles that are now
available, but it would be nice to have it available
in the base, too.
Regards,
bf
--- Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This would first require incorporating a
BSD-licensed LZMA
library into the base system. Last I checked, the
LZMA
code was all GPL, but that may have changed. (I
seem to recall finding suitable decompression code
at one point, but that's not sufficient for this
type
of change.)
After that hurdle, incorporating LZMA support into
libarchive is pretty straightforward. Once
libarchive
supports it, bsdtar gets it pretty much for free.
Tim
bf wrote:
Perhaps you have some comments or suggestions?:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/121413
Regards,
bf
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