(These are the licensing details for this directory, taken from lzma.txt in the original source distribution. The basic gist is you can do what you want with this code, including sell it in a closed-source app...changes to LZMA itself must be released as source code, which in the case of PhysicsFS, you can just point people to our source code repository unless you make further changes yourself. --ryan.) LZMA SDK 4.27 ------------- LZMA SDK 4.27 Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov LZMA SDK provides developers with documentation, source code, and sample code necessary to write software that uses LZMA compression. LZMA is default and general compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip compression program (www.7-zip.org). LZMA provides high compression ratio and very fast decompression. LZMA is an improved version of famous LZ77 compression algorithm. It was improved in way of maximum increasing of compression ratio, keeping high decompression speed and low memory requirements for decompressing. LICENSE ------- LZMA SDK is licensed under two licenses: 1) GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL) 2) Common Public License (CPL) It means that you can select one of these two licenses and follow rules of that license. SPECIAL EXCEPTION Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits you to statically or dynamically link your code (or bind by name) to the files from LZMA SDK without subjecting your linked code to the terms of the CPL or GNU LGPL. Any modifications or additions to files from LZMA SDK, however, are subject to the GNU LGPL or CPL terms. SPECIAL EXCEPTION allows you to use LZMA SDK in applications with closed code, while you keep LZMA SDK code unmodified. SPECIAL EXCEPTION #2: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits you to use this code under the same terms and conditions contained in the License Agreement you have for any previous version of LZMA SDK developed by Igor Pavlov. SPECIAL EXCEPTION #2 allows owners of proprietary licenses to use latest version of LZMA SDK as update for previous versions. SPECIAL EXCEPTION #3: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits you to use code of examples (LzmaTest.c, LzmaStateTest.c, LzmaAlone.cpp) as public domain code. GNU LGPL and CPL licenses are pretty similar and both these licenses are classified as 1) "Free software licenses" at http://www.gnu.org/ 2) "OSI-approved" at http://www.opensource.org/ LZMA SDK also can be available under a proprietary license which can include: 1) Right to modify code without subjecting modified code to the terms of the CPL or GNU LGPL 2) Technical support for code To request such proprietary license or any additional consultations, send email message from that page: http://www.7-zip.org/support.html You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA You should have received a copy of the Common Public License along with this library. --- http://www.7-zip.org http://www.7-zip.org/support.html