[arch-general] About Arch pkg compress format

[Xavier]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> Pacman itself is ready for .tar.bz2 package files. The whole issue
> with .bz2 files is that compression and decompression times increase a
> lot without giving the same amount of size reduction back. We've done
> some recent tests with LZMA, which compresses just as good as bzip2 at
> the lowest compression rate, but does it at the same speed as gzip. The
> downside is that LZMA is not supported by libarchive, and won't be
> supported officially either, because libarchive is BSD licensed and LZMA
> is GPL licensed.
>

Is it possible and/or realistic to imagine a BSD licensed
implementation of LZMA?