From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 18:20:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB0D106564A for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:20:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from kientzle.com (kientzle.com [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74058FC18 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:20:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.123.2.178] (p53.kientzle.com [66.166.149.53]) by kientzle.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mAQIKptv069819; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <492D937E.3040000@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:20:46 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060422 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bf2006a@yahoo.com References: <164866.53825.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <164866.53825.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" , "Sean C. Farley" Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:20:53 -0000 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. 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