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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:33:42 +0400
From:      Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6)
Message-ID:  <20080422143338.GH54610@amilo.cenkes.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080422135708.GB22905@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:57:08AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:34:39PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin 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.
> 
> Too bad. :(  FWIW, I don't see any significant, incompatible competitors
> to bzip2 or ogg vorbis (for example).

It seems that GPL infects not only software, but minds also, with
pure FUD.



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