Am 03.01.2011 17:55, schrieb Ray Rashif: > Hi guys > > During the recent community package addition sprint I noticed someone > mentioning rar [1], so I looked into any possible reason why it was > never brought into the repositories (not that I personally have any > need for it). I found none. Ubuntu appears to have had it in > multiverse for some time already, and a quick mail to RARLAB resulted > in a reply from Eugene Roshal stating that it's OK to redistribute if > no files are modified.
It was removed from the repos and replaced by 'unrar' a few years ago, as the license of 'rar' did not allow redistribution, while 'unrar' did. I don't know when this happened, but I do know there was mailing list discussion and tpowa was involved. That is all I remember.
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