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Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-ali
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Óscar Fuentes |
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Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:05:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> I have set these variables for me in order to support these formats
>> (provided that the relevant rar and 7z programs are installed)
>> accordingly and I could provide a patch. But I would like to know,
>> whether there are copyright issues, when adding these external programs.
>
> Yes, AFAIK the full-featured versions that run on Windows are not Free
> Software, and the Free variants are not capable of opening archives
> one finds nowadays.
7z is LGPL/public domain.