On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:34:39PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:42:24PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > That's well hidden (DOC/lzam.txt in the tarball). Someone > > should produce some sort of lzma-lite distribution that only > > does the basics. Then this could be a practical option. > > Unfortunately, a closer look dispelled the hope. The > public-domained files only show how to use the GPL'ed ones. I had > a conversation with the author, who is worried about incompatible > formats being spawned if he releases lzma from under LGPL. He > might change his mind in the future, though.
Too bad. :( FWIW, I don't see any significant, incompatible competitors to bzip2 or ogg vorbis (for example). -- Brooks
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