Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:20:46 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: bf2006a@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? Message-ID: <492D937E.3040000@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <164866.53825.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <164866.53825.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
bf wrote: >>I think you need contact to author. >>I don't see information about public domain on russian >>page > > I should add that there has been a discussion of the license > change on the project's Sourceforge forums, and the author reaffirms > the change: > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2599870&forum_id=45797 Thank you very much for that pointer, that helps a lot. It is a little worrying that Igor Pavlov is asking people whether he should change the license yet again. <sigh> I hope that's simply rhetorical. Having a license that keeps changing is much worse than any GPL variant. At least it's clear that 4.61 is Public Domain so even if later versions do change, then it should be feasible to fork from there. Maybe over the coming holidays I'll have time to start looking at whether it's feasible to have lzma support in FreeBSD's base system. At least the licensing should no longer be an obstacle, though there could be other hurdles. Tim
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?492D937E.3040000>