Administrator Guide

License
LZMA SDK is available under any of the following licenses:
1. GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL)
2. Common Public License (CPL)
3. Simplified license for unmodified code (read SPECIAL EXCEPTION)
4. Proprietary license
This means that you can select one of these four options and follow rules of that license.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permit you statically or dynamically to 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
modification or addition to any file in the LZMA SDK, however, is subject to the GNU LGPL or CPL terms.
This SPECIAL EXCEPTION allows you to use LZMA SDK in applications with proprietary code, provided you keep the LZMA SDK
code unmodified.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION #2: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits you to use LZMA SDK 4.43 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 holders of proprietary licenses to use latest version of LZMA SDK as update for previous
versions.
GNU LGPL and CPL are pretty similar and both these licenses are classified as free software licenses at http://www.gnu.org/
and OSI-approved at http://www.opensource.org/.
LZMA SDK also is available under a proprietary license which can include:
1. The right to modify code from the LZMA SDK without subjecting the modified code to the terms of the CPL or GNU LGPL
2. Technical support for LZMA SDK via email
To request such a proprietary license, or for any additional consultations, send an email message, using the 7-Zip support page:
Send message to LZMA developer
The source code of 7-Zip is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL. You can download the source code of 7-Zip at 7-Zip's
Source Forge Page
Additional License(s)
The license included with the software differs slightly from the version posted on the website. Specifically it includes SPECIAL
EXCEPTION #3, which is not present in the license on the website. The license from the software archive follows:
LICENSE
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LZMA SDK is available under any of the following licenses:
1) GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL)
2) Common Public License (CPL)
3) Simplified license for unmodified code (read SPECIAL EXCEPTION)
4) Proprietary license
It means that you can select one of these four options and follow rules of that license.
1,2) GNU LGPL and CPL licenses are pretty similar and both these licenses are classified as
- "Free software licenses" at http://www.gnu.org/
- "OSI-approved" at http://www.opensource.org/
3) 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.
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