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Subject: Re: lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6)
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:04:39PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin
> <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:42:24PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >  > That's well hidden (DOC/lzam.txt in the tarball).  Someone
> >  > should produce some sort of lzma-lite distribution that only
> >  > does the basics.  Then this could be a practical option.
> >
> >  Unfortunately, a closer look dispelled the hope. The
> >  public-domained files only show how to use the GPL'ed ones. I had
> >  a conversation with the author, who is worried about incompatible
> >  formats being spawned if he releases lzma from under LGPL. He
> >  might change his mind in the future, though.
> >
> >  So I guess we'll have to stick to using lzma from ports for now.
> 
> Maybe releasing the extracting code under public domain?

It doesn't provide the necessary "protection" since the
compressing code need not be distributed by whoever profits from
incompatibilities.