Re: About Arch pkg compress format

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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The
> downside is that LZMA is not supported by libarchive, and won't be
> supported officially either, because libarchive is BSD licensed and LZMA
> is GPL licensed.

Hi,

It seems that LZMA lib is licensed with LGPL and has an special
exception that permits to link (statically or dinamicaly) without
being bound by the LGPL terms. See

http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Maybe libarchive could be modified to support lzma also.

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