[vox-tech] rar unrar and non-free package

[Bill Kendrick]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:05:19PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> It's worth pointing out, though, that the "rar" utility is also
> non-free-as-in-beer: it's shareware.

Oh, interesting.

Aside from the apt description's comment on the shareware/registration issue,
does 'rar' or the rar package do anything to enforce the registration
requirement, or at least remind users after 40 days?

-bill!
(who has only installed 'unrar', and had loads of trouble with it :^(
I'll stick to zip, tar.gz and tar.bz2, thank you. ;) )