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- Fri Jan 30, 2026 6:03 pm
- Forum: wimlib discussion
- Topic: Licensing LZX compressor as LGPLv2 for integration to Wine?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 31998
Re: Licensing LZX compressor as LGPLv2 for integration to Wine?
Well, written permission from the copyright holder (me) still counts even if it's not pushed out to the repo. But sure, I understand it would be clearer if the repo itself was updated. I've pushed out a commit which updates the library license from LGPLv3+ to LGPLv2.1+.
Yeah, I understand and I ...
- Wed Jan 28, 2026 6:46 pm
- Forum: wimlib discussion
- Topic: Licensing LZX compressor as LGPLv2 for integration to Wine?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 31998
Re: Licensing LZX compressor as LGPLv2 for integration to Wine?
Sorry to keep bothering about this.
I submitted a PR to try integrating it to Wine: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9061
But, the maintainers aren't accepting this thread as legally adequate. It seems they would rather the changes be upstreamed and the project license updated ...
I submitted a PR to try integrating it to Wine: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9061
But, the maintainers aren't accepting this thread as legally adequate. It seems they would rather the changes be upstreamed and the project license updated ...
- Fri Sep 26, 2025 2:55 pm
- Forum: wimlib discussion
- Topic: Licensing LZX compressor as LGPLv2 for integration to Wine?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 31998
Licensing LZX compressor as LGPLv2 for integration to Wine?
Hey I've been working for a bit on trying to create an OSS solution for creating LZX-compressed cabinets, and got one working with a fork of Wine's cabinet DLL based on a heavily-modified fork of wimlib's LZX compressor: https://github.com/elasota/liblzx
I've been looking at merging the changes ...
I've been looking at merging the changes ...
- Mon Jun 02, 2025 12:57 am
- Forum: wimlib discussion
- Topic: Adapting wimlib to CAB LZX
- Replies: 3
- Views: 81311
Re: Adapting wimlib to CAB LZX
Old post sorry but just FYI I am attempting to do this in a fork:
https://github.com/elasota/wimlib
So far it is working but I still need to finish adding cross-block matchfinding.
LZX window size max is only 2MB for CAB and 64MB for LZX DELTA and it has to do full bitstream flushes every 32kb for ...
https://github.com/elasota/wimlib
So far it is working but I still need to finish adding cross-block matchfinding.
LZX window size max is only 2MB for CAB and 64MB for LZX DELTA and it has to do full bitstream flushes every 32kb for ...