On 4 January 2011 19:16, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
Personally I think unrar is sufficient for most people so I don't think we need to package a program with such strict licensing terms.
Yes, that's correct. There is still some public education needed to encourage use of 7z for when archival/compression like RAR is needed. Just that there is significant demand for it, and other distributions appear to have it, so I thought, why not? The licensing isn't much different from other freeware that allow redistribution. The only thing is that the author rests assured that the users are provided with a license, and that it is then upto those users to comply with the terms and stop their usage or register/buy a license.
Do we already have sharewares in our repos?
I don't think so. We have lots of freeware, but nothing like this. In fact, I was half-expecting a negative response from RARLAB, before I found out that 'rar' is actually being redistributed by at least Ubuntu [1] (Fedora doesn't even ship 'unrar'). [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/rar