[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] unrarlib on AMD64

[Alexander Strasser]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 April 2005 at 11:37, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > What about adding an (optional) support for rar executable, instead of
> > unrarlib? Recent rars cannot be read by unrarlib anyway.
> 
> Because we strive not to require proprietary libs/tools. Though unrar
> source is available, the license is not GPL compatible. No rar3 support
> is planned in unrarlib, so we just have to live with it or write rar3
> decompression routines ourselves.

  He said optional. I don't see how the license plays a role as it just
executes the external binary.

  Alex (beastd)