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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Using libunrar in KArchive?
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-03-29 9:31:03
Message-ID: 2888053.VNuTF0i9fn () xps
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El Divendres, 28 de mar=E7 de 2014, a les 19:45:07, Alex Merry va escriure:
> On 28/03/14 18:55, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 March 2014 13:51:48 David Faure wrote:
> >> 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?
> > =

> > What do you mean by "put it in karchive"? As the cited Fedora page says
> > the license is GPL-incompatible. You cannot link GPL code together with
> > any parts of unrar's source code. Calling the unrar executable from
> > karchive should be okay though.
> =

> I would assume this is putting the code that *uses* libunrar in
> KArchive, which is fine.  Obviously, putting libunrar itself in would
> not be.

Yep, that is what i understood too.

Cheers,
  Albert

> =

> But, as Albert said, no distribution would ship a binary that linked to
> libunrar, so that bit of code wouldn't get much use (distros would just
> compile KArchive without unrar support).
> =

> Alex
> =

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