On Fri Feb 15, 2002 at 12:20:30PM +1100, Geoffrey Lee wrote:

> > > Vadim Plessky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >> Reason why you may want to use rar, instead of zip: zip can't cut
> > >> archive into multiple pcs, say, of 1.5MB
> > 
> > > tar -M
> > 
> > ...with the added advantage of working on practically anything Unixish, and 
> > Windows (e.g. PKzip will untar). What licence does RAR have?
> 
> Essentially shareware. Or some such, I don't remember the exact wording but
> I remember some source was available ..

RAR has and probably always will be shareware.  The source for unrar
was released as freeware (not GPL, not BSD, not any other open source
license).

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