Francesco Poli <[email protected]> writes: > P.S.: I think that maybe all this mess is not worth doing... maybe the > best long-term solution is searching or developing a Free (GPLv2+ > compatible) UnRAR replacement.
AIUI, a major problem is that there is some kind of monopoly asserted by the copyright holder in the primary RAR program. The Wikipedia page <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR> is full of confusion over software freedom terms and suffers from incoherency, but the overall gist (that interacting with newer-format RAR data is considered the monopoly of the RAR author) is clear. Whether it's accurate, I can't say; but this appears to have had a significant chilling effect <URL:http://chillingeffects.org/> on development of free-software RAR programs. -- \ “Dvorak users of the world flgkd!” —Kirsten Chevalier, | `\ rec.humor.oracle.d | _o__) | Ben Finney
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