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Subject:    Re: Using libunrar in KArchive?
From:       Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-03-29 19:55:38
Message-ID: 1617779.Qxghl0JhDo () thufir ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Saturday 29 March 2014 10:33:10 David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2014 10:31:03 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Divendres, 28 de març de 2014, a les 19:45:07, Alex Merry va 
escriure:
> > > On 28/03/14 18:55, Ingo Klöcker 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.
> 
> And it is what I meant, too.
>
> The code in karchive itself would be LGPL just like the rest of
> karchive. It would just have a dependency on libunrar - and get
> disabled if libunrar isn't available.

Okay. Then I see no licensing problem with putting this code in our 
repositories.


Regards,
Ingo

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