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     1.4 +### UNRAR5 Plugin (optional, alternative unrar engine)
     1.5 +
     1.6 +On Windows and Linux systems recent PeaZip versions use by default the 7-Zip /
     1.7 +p7zip 15.06 (or more recent) unrar implementation, which is capable of reading
     1.8 +(browsing, extracting) RAR5 format natively, so **it is no longer needed to
     1.9 +separately install this plugin** - which it is still provided only as an
    1.10 +alternative rar5 files extraction engine.
    1.11 +
    1.12 +UNRAR5 Plugin is meant to [open RAR files](http://www.peazip.org/free-rar.html)
    1.13 +built with most recent [RARv5rar5](http://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm) format
    1.14 +standard file format specifications.
    1.15 +
    1.16 +RarLab's unrar is royalty-free, and sources are available, but due to unrar
    1.17 +[licensing restrictionis](http://www.scribd.com/doc/45654333/UnRAR-License#scribd)
    1.18 +(licensing terms of source code prohibits making a tool that can create
    1.19 +RAR-compatible archives) it is widely regarded
    1.20 +([Fedora project on unrar](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar?rd=Licensing/Unrar),
    1.21 +[Ubuntu forums unrar](http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2012979.html))
    1.22 +by Open Source community to not be OSI-compliant - and consequently needs to be
    1.23 +deployed as separate add-on for PeaZip project.