This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: ITP: unrar-free 0.0.1+cvs2007112-1 (v2)
On Mar 6 16:43, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 2013-03-06 13:19 Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
> <yselkowitz-Rn4VEauK+AKRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>:
> | On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:28:05 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> |
> | > algorhithm used in this utility. This free version can't handle some
> | > archives in the RAR 3.0+ format."
> |
> | While this would seem to be distributable[1], the question is raised
> | there about the usefulness of a v2-only decompressor where a disputable
> | number of RAR files in the wild are v3.
>
> I've added two programs to *-free package:
>
> unrar
>
> - Displays notice that the *-free version can only handle older RAR
> archives
> - Refers to included downloader program (see next)
>
> unrar-nonfree-install
>
> - installs the *-nonfree that can handle later RAR archives.
Please, no. We don't want to go that route. I know this is just
a script to download the version with the questionable license,
but even that script may be questionable in certain countries.
So, please, let's not do that.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat