3 Jan
2011
3 Jan
'11
5:08 p.m.
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.