Hi I'm forwarding this to Tomas too, since he may not be subscribed to the debian-legal list. Bests Salvatore On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:35:53AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> writes: > > > P.S.: I think that maybe all this mess is not worth doing... maybe the > > best long-term solution is searching or developing a Free (GPLv2+ > > compatible) UnRAR replacement. > > AIUI, a major problem is that there is some kind of monopoly asserted by > the copyright holder in the primary RAR program. > > The Wikipedia page <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR> is full of > confusion over software freedom terms and suffers from incoherency, but > the overall gist (that interacting with newer-format RAR data is > considered the monopoly of the RAR author) is clear. > > Whether it's accurate, I can't say; but this appears to have had a > significant chilling effect <URL:http://chillingeffects.org/> on > development of free-software RAR programs. > > -- > \ “Dvorak users of the world flgkd!” —Kirsten Chevalier, | > `\ rec.humor.oracle.d | > _o__) | > Ben Finney
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