Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:57:08 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@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: <20080422135708.GB22905@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20080422103434.GE54610@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <200804151709.03452.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <200804152151.07444.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20080416022153.GA56554@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <200804152235.35820.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20080416030753.GA56826@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20080421190501.GG88801@amilo.cenkes.org> <20080421194224.GA21205@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20080422103434.GE54610@amilo.cenkes.org>
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--IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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). -- Brooks --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFIDe60XY6L6fI4GtQRAkuRAKCPZ891jyvS4IdP2aO7rfW3s76Z2gCfexcB H6PRZqaUmN0c4W4jbiK9o2U= =A0r6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--
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