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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:41:51PM +0300, ?smail Dönmez wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2005 22:36, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >
> > > 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.

How you can arrive at this conclusion from the above words is a mystery
to me ...

Diego