Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> stop using rar.
>
> be free.
Agreed. (By the way, it is also a violation of the EULA to use rar for more
than 30 days without paying. I'm sure many people are using it illegally.
But the biggest problem with the format is that there is no Free as in
speech decompressor for it. The "freeware" unrar, while "free as in beer",
has quite outrageous licensing restrictions. Just say "no" to proprietary
software!)
But for a more constructive suggestion: use p7zip instead. It can also build
self-extracting archives, you just need the self-extracting stub from the
W32 distribution of 7-Zip. And it's all LGPL (except the unrar plugin, see
above; the Fedora p7zip package doesn't ship that plugin for this reason).
Kevin Kofler
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