On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 10:51 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> > If you can do the legal legwork that would be helpful for slim install too
> > ;-)
>
> I've started the opensource review (OSR# 7163). We'll see how long that
> takes. Unfortunately, it also includes crypto functionality, so it'll have
> to go through *that* quagmire, too. At any rate, the ball's rolling, and
> is in legal's court (both export control and license folks).
it looks like there's another package out there which just does the LZMA
compression algorithm underlying 7zip without encryption:
http://tukaani.org/lzma/
might be worth seeing if that gets through legal any faster...
- Bill