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Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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Fri Jan 18 11:29:09 2019 +0200 (2019-01-18) |
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1 ### UNRAR5 Plugin (optional, alternative unrar engine)
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3 On Windows and Linux systems recent PeaZip versions use by default the 7-Zip /
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4 p7zip 15.06 (or more recent) unrar implementation, which is capable of reading
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5 (browsing, extracting) RAR5 format natively, so **it is no longer needed to
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6 separately install this plugin** - which it is still provided only as an
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7 alternative rar5 files extraction engine.
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9 UNRAR5 Plugin is meant to [open RAR files](http://www.peazip.org/free-rar.html)
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10 built with most recent [RARv5rar5](http://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm) format
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11 standard file format specifications.
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13 RarLab's unrar is royalty-free, and sources are available, but due to unrar
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14 [licensing restrictionis](http://www.scribd.com/doc/45654333/UnRAR-License#scribd)
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15 (licensing terms of source code prohibits making a tool that can create
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16 RAR-compatible archives) it is widely regarded
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17 ([Fedora project on unrar](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar?rd=Licensing/Unrar),
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18 [Ubuntu forums unrar](http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2012979.html))
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19 by Open Source community to not be OSI-compliant - and consequently needs to be
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20 deployed as separate add-on for PeaZip project.
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