Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:35:30 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: yuanjue@yuanjue.net, alfredoj69@gmail.com, mainland@apeiron.net, mjl@luckie.org.nz, farrokhi@freebsd.org, jylefort@freebsd.org, thierry@freebsd.org, stefan@freebsd.org, shaun@freebsd.org, chinsan@freebsd.org, pb@freebsd.org, jylitalo@iki.fi, absinthe@pobox.com, ache@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org, lioux@freebsd.org, trebestie@gmail.com, chess@chessgriffin.com, gahr@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@varju.ca, dragonsa@highveldmail.co.za, odunkl@gmx.net, clsung@freebsd.org, kay_lehmann@web.de, anray@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, svmohr@rm6.net, oz@nixil.net, r@robakdesign.com, pneumann@gmail.com, sascha@root-login.org, araujo@freebsd.org, vd@freebsd.org, gslin@gslin.org, pav@freebsd.org, metrol@metrol.net, ale@freebsd.org, nivit@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org, stephen@math.missouri.edu, carl@stagecraft.cx, christopher.illies@ki.se, yaizawa@2004.jukuin.keio.ac.jp, perl@freebsd.org, peter@pean.org, elitetek@tekrealm.net, multimedia@freebsd.org, dyeske@gmail.com, girgen@freebsd.org, markus@freebsd.org, bsdkaffee@gmail.com, giacomomariani@yahoo.it Subject: Re: lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6) Message-ID: <200804152235.35820.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20080416022153.GA56554@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <200804151709.03452.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <200804152151.07444.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20080416022153.GA56554@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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=D7=A6=D7=D4=CF=D2=CF=CB 15 =CB=D7=A6=D4=C5=CE=D8 2008 10:21 =D0=CF, Brooks= Davis =F7=C9 =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC=C9: > Sadly, the author's licensing terms will limit the adoption of lzma. > The BSD license is well established as the most restrictive acceptable > license for successful, widely adopted compression schemes. Ever seen the inside of gzip.c (the original)? General Public License is=20 certainly more restrictive than BSD's and yet we (and just about everyone=20 else under the sun) had it in the tree until very recently, when a direct=20 client of libz was imported. -mi
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