[Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

[Paul Wise]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:39 PM, John Sullivan wrote:

> Which formats are those?
>
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction
>
> I think this is the unar package in main.
>
> If this doesn't cover new formats, FSF would like to know about it.

Yes, unar is the command-line version of The Unarchiver and supports
RAR v3. unrar-free is the older RAR decompressor that does not support
RAR v3. Both are in Debian main, but the author of the RAR format is
contesting the legitimacy of RAR support of unar/The Unarchiver.

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