[Solar-general] Re: [M-Colab] ¿Agregar unrar-free?

Mar Ago 14 16:14:27 CEST 2007

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Diego Saravia wrote:
> no hay soft libre para rar?

Lo mas parecido es la unrarlib, pero pongo aca un par de items interesantes de la FAQ:

* There is no way to create a RAR archive with the URARFileLib. When will you add a "create archive"
function?

Probably never. The license of the free unrar source code prohibits making a tool that can create
RAR compatible archives. Eugene Roshal spent a lot of time making RAR what it is today and RAR helps
him to earn his livelihood. If you really need to create RAR archives form your application, I
suggest contacting the author of RAR.

* Do you know that the license for the unrar sources from RARLab is not compatible with the GNU
Public license?

Yes, this is true. But we have the permission from Eugene Roshal to release unrarlib 0.4.0 under GPL
and unrarlib-license. Note: this doen't mean that RAR is free now or you can use the unrar source
from RARlabs under GPL. You are just allowed to use UniquE RAR File Library version 0.4.0 (unrarlib
0.4.0) under GPL.

Y esta ultima es interesante a nivel funcional de rar 3:

* What about RAR 3 support?

RAR3 support is not scheduled. It would imply problems with the GPL license (RAR3 features a PPM
based compression algorithm developed by Dmitry Shkarin plus some code by Eugeny Roshal).
If you need RAR3 support, check ftp.rarlabs.com for the original unrar source code and extract the
needed code yourself.
Windows developers may have a look at Sebastian Schuberth's "arch::ifstream" library (requires the
unrar.dll).

If YOU added RAR3 support and would like to share it with the 2000 monthly visitors of this page, so
please let me know.

Update (12/2005): valuable hint by Jordi Burguet Castell: "Incidentally, I could get the source from
ftp://ftp.rarlabs.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.5.4.tar.gz and easily compiled it with "make -f makefile.unix"
as explained there (my system is a Debian unstable i386). Now I can finally unrar some rar3 files I
had, which is what I really needed! Probably it is evident, but I thought it wasn't going to work.".

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