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Changes in version 1.6:
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2025-02-20 16:01:38 +01:00
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Compression ratio of option -9 has been slightly increased.
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2025-02-20 20:23:05 +01:00
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The configure script now accepts the option "--disable-static".
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2025-02-20 20:20:27 +01:00
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Improved portability to BSD systems:
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2025-02-20 20:20:27 +01:00
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The configure script now accepts the option "--disable-ldconfig".
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"make install" now ignores any errors from ldconfig.
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2025-02-20 20:21:13 +01:00
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Minilzip now copies file dates, permissions, and ownership like "cp -p".
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(If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission
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bits S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).
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"lzlib.texinfo" has been renamed to "lzlib.texi".
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2025-02-20 20:26:41 +01:00
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The license has been changed to "GPL version 2 or later with link
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exception".
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Rationale for the license change.
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I have recently been shocked to know that it is apparently not legal to
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use lzlib in GPLv2 programs. Linking those programs with lzlib violates
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the GPLv2. But linking proprietary programs with lzlib is fine and legal!
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This problem is not caused by any fault in lzlib's link exception; the
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LGPLv3 has the same problem. See for example
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http://nmav.gnutls.org/2013/03/the-perils-of-lgplv3.html
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Of course it was never my intention to prevent GPLv2 programs from using
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lzlib. I'm sorry for any inconveniences my oversight may have caused to
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distributions, GPLv2 software projects, and users in general.
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I am also ashamed of having participated in this schism of the GPL
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community. The mere proliferation of different free software licenses is
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a burden in and of itself. From now on I'll license all my projects and
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contributions in a way compatible with the GPLv2.
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