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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Using libunrar in KArchive?
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-03-27 22:37:57
Message-ID: 2270612.8JR6e1iUzZ () xps
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El Dijous, 27 de mar=E7 de 2014, a les 13:51:48, David Faure va escriure:
> On Thursday 27 March 2014 12:36:52 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2014-03-27, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> > > Do you think it would be possibly to make karchive optionally depend =
on
> > > libunrar, for *extracting* rar files (with no support for creating rar
> > > files)?
> > > =

> > > The license for libunrar has limitations, but AFAICS only "do not
> > > recreate
> > > the compression algorithm", so if we don't do that, would it be a
> > > problem?
> > =

> > It would be code that none of the big distributions would ship, so I'm
> > not sure it would be that ... useful.
> =

> OK. Since I will write this code anyway (a customer needs it), this only
> leaves one question - is it ok to put it in karchive anyway? As you say t=
he
> distros will not provide the optional dependency so it won't be compiled,
> but having the code in there in the first place isn't a problem, right?

It should be fine. It's only on distribution of the stuff that the aggregat=
e =

license would apply (afaics)

Cheers,
  Albert

> =

> The alternative is to host the code elsewhere (playground, github...) but
> that makes it harder (I might need access to karchive_p.h).
> =

> > The big distributions wouldn't ship it because it violates the four
> > freedoms / the opensource definition / the debian free software
> > guidelines
> =

> I see.
> =

> > maybe looking at librarification of 'unar' would be a better approach ?
> =

> I had a look, and that's Objective-C. Apart from the issue of the
> unfamiliarity with the language, I wonder what it means in terms of
> integration with a C++ library and compiler requirements...

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