p7zip-plugins and rar extraction.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III  wrote:

> We can't use the code because it isn't free. It has use restrictions.
> Someone would have to write an unrar from scratch with a free license for
> it to get into Fedora.
>

unarchiver is supposed to have a free software implementation that is
capable of extracting RAR3 format.  It isn't packaged for Fedora yet.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction

Someone should do that and get the existing desktop GUI's to support it.

Rahul
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