![]() We suspect that Pavlov's choice of LGPL, rather than full GPL, may be because 7-Zip includes the unRAR library so that it can unpack files in the proprietary RAR format. The counter-evidence that it's possible is that there is at least one fork of 7-Zip out there: NanaZip, which claims better Windows 10/11 integration. The author has used Git professionally for many years, cordially loathes it, and strongly suspects he is not alone in this.Īs evidence of the difficulty of building 7-Zip from source, "Paul" links to a discussion from 2010. 7-Zip has a single author, Igor Pavlov, and if he doesn't want to use Git, The Reg FOSS desk doesn't blame him. Git's a complicated tool, which is why Linus Torvalds gave it the name: it's British English for a hostile or uncooperative person. There is no need to use Git source code management if you don't need it.
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