[GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freeing Unrar

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote:
> As I understand, it does not limit the possibility of using it as a
> reference for a free implementation of the *de*compression algorithm.
> As an example, the zip and unzip programs come from different source
> packages. INAL, but I see no problem in creating a GNU unrar program,
> as long as the code from unrarsrc is not used, just the concepts.

This is more or less what I am already trying to do, but even extracting 
the concepts is not easy. Unrar uses 2 decompression algorithms, a 
virtual machine, several filters, a lot of headers, encription, etc.