On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 09:29:03AM -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 12:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > Is there an open-source way to view the contents of a rar archive? > > The p7zip package, if compiled with the "rar" USE flag, can handle > this, in case you have it already.
This forces the "unRAR" LICENSE on p7zip, as opposed to the Lesser GPL:
app-arch/p7zip ebuild:
LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 rar? ( unRAR )"
Unfortunately, as [1] describes, this licence is non-free and GPL-incompatible.
The full text is at `$(q -Ce PORTDIR)/licenses/unRAR`, for your viewing
displeasure.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar
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