Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > The LZMA implementation from 7-zip has been released as public domain > (since version 4.62 / Nov 2008) in the LZMA SDK: http://www.7-zip.org/ > sdk.html
That's good news. Now, if somebody could contribute a Python wrapper for these... > So, there shouldn't be a license issue for Windows. I am not sure if > there are already system-provided LZMA libraries on Linux at this time. There are. The Linux version apparently originates from the same sources, so they might be API compatible. However, I wouldn't mind if we extracted the entire lzma library from 7zip, and put it into the source distribution. ---------- title: please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module -> please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5689> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
