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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Tue Jun 30 16:37:05 2020 +0100 (2020-06-30) |
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1 ### UNRAR5 Plugin (optional, alternative unrar engine)
3 On Windows and Linux systems recent PeaZip versions use by default the 7-Zip /
4 p7zip 15.06 (or more recent) unrar implementation, which is capable of reading
5 (browsing, extracting) RAR5 format natively, so **it is no longer needed to
6 separately install this plugin** - which it is still provided only as an
7 alternative rar5 files extraction engine.
9 UNRAR5 Plugin is meant to [open RAR files](http://www.peazip.org/free-rar.html)
10 built with most recent [RARv5rar5](http://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm) format
11 standard file format specifications.
13 RarLab's unrar is royalty-free, and sources are available, but due to unrar
14 [licensing restrictionis](http://www.scribd.com/doc/45654333/UnRAR-License#scribd)
15 (licensing terms of source code prohibits making a tool that can create
16 RAR-compatible archives) it is widely regarded
17 ([Fedora project on unrar](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar?rd=Licensing/Unrar),
18 [Ubuntu forums unrar](http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2012979.html))
19 by Open Source community to not be OSI-compliant - and consequently needs to be
20 deployed as separate add-on for PeaZip project.