lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

[Tim Kientzle]

Where is the announcement of this change?

I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the
sourceforge project pages all still say GPL.

Tim


bf wrote:
> Tim:
> 
> There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA
> SDK, has placed the latest version, available at:
> 
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2
> 
> into the public domain.  It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it
> would seem suitable for adoption into the FreeBSD source tree in some
> form that could be integrated with bsdtar/libarchive.  What do you 
> think?  It would be *really* nice to have this, since in many ways
> it is better than bzip2, and many projects have started to distribute
> code in lzma-compressed tarballs.  It could help us save disk space
> and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in 
> shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc.
> 
> Regards,
>            b.
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 3/6/08, bf <bf2006a at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>From: bf <bf2006a at yahoo.com>
>>Subject: Re: bsdtar/libarchive
>>To: "Tim Kientzle" <kientzle at freebsd.org>
>>Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 1:52 PM
>>Yes, the LZMA implementations that I have seen are
>>LGPL, CPL, and/or GPL:
>>
>>http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
>>http://tukaani.org/lzma/
>>
>>I will inquire if anyone knows of a BSD-licensed
>>alternative.  I was hoping that portmgr would make
>>some minimal changes to encourage people to take
>>advantage of the LZMA port distfiles that are now
>>available, but it would be nice to have it available
>>in the base, too.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>bf
>>
>>
>>
>>--- Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This would first require incorporating a
>>>BSD-licensed LZMA
>>>library into the base system.  Last I checked, the
>>>LZMA
>>>code was all GPL, but that may have changed.  (I
>>>seem to recall finding suitable decompression code
>>>at one point, but that's not sufficient for this
>>>type
>>>of change.)
>>>
>>>After that hurdle, incorporating LZMA support into
>>>libarchive is pretty straightforward.  Once
>>>libarchive
>>>supports it, bsdtar gets it pretty much for free.
>>>
>>>Tim
>>>
>>>bf wrote:
>>>
>>>>Perhaps you have some comments or suggestions?:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/121413
>>
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>bf
>>>>
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