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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:35:30 -0400
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
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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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