[MPlayer-dev-eng] Utilize libunrar.so/unrar.dll?

İsmail Dönmez ismail at uludag.org.tr
Fri Oct 21 21:41:51 CEST 2005


On Friday 21 October 2005 22:36, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Except you are not allowed to read the code if you will develop an
> > unrar-like program :-). Anyway as you said its not crucial but well would
> > be nice imho.
>
> Doesn't the license just say you may not use it to develop a compatible
> archiver? Just a decompressor wouldn't qualify as that I'd say...

Hmm yeah relevant license part says :

   2. The unRAR sources may be used in any software to handle RAR
      archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used
      to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary.

So it can surely be reimplemented as L/GPL.

Regards,
ismail




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