From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 17:41:35 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 4A11B106564A; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:41:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (farley.org [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D918FC1D; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (HPooka@thor.farley.org [192.168.1.5]) by mail.farley.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAPHP91a020656; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:25:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:25:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Sean C. Farley" To: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: <492C3053.1030802@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <259774.68895.qm@web39105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <492C3053.1030802@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail.farley.org Cc: bf2006a@yahoo.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org 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: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:41:35 -0000 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Where is the announcement of this change? > > I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the > sourceforge project pages all still say GPL. It is on the SDK page: http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html > bf wrote: >> Tim: >> >> There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original >> LZMA SDK, has placed the latest version, available at: >> >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2 >> >> into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it >> would seem suitable for adoption into the FreeBSD source tree in some >> form that could be integrated with bsdtar/libarchive. What do you >> think? It would be *really* nice to have this, since in many ways it >> is better than bzip2, and many projects have started to distribute >> code in lzma-compressed tarballs. It could help us save disk space >> and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in >> shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc. *snip* Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org