Re: Is the RAR archiver freely distributable?

[Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>]

>>>>>> On Tue, 08 Nov 2016, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>
>> I suppose, providing the full text would be even better.  Here is
>> the licence of RAR 5.3.b2-1 from Debian’s non-free repository:
>
>> Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal 
>> [...]
>
> Where did you take this from? It doesn't agree with the license.txt
> (which is the new version already) found in rar_5.3.b2.orig.tar.gz.

>From /usr/share/doc/copyright of ‘rar_5.3.b2-1_amd64.deb’.  It indeed does not present in original distributions since RAR 4.2.0-1 (which is distributed with Jessie) at least.