lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6)

[Florent Thoumie]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin
<infofarmer at freebsd.org> 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.
>
>  So I guess we'll have to stick to using lzma from ports for now.

Maybe releasing the extracting code under public domain?

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Florent Thoumie
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