Improve the specification for reimplementation and porting
sorairolake opened this issue · comments
Currently, I think it is difficult to reimplement or port this format without referencing the reference implementation. So, I think it is difficult to implement the format with libraries licensed under the BSD-like licenses (e.g., libarchive or Go's Standard library).1
This issue may be resolved by:
- Make the specification good enough to implement the format.
- Add a simplified implementation for an educational purpose to understand the format licensed under the BSD-like license.
gzip and lzip are licensed under the GPL, so they may be helpful. These formats seems to provide the sufficient specification to implement.23 This method may be effective since these formats are implemented in libarchive and Go's Standard library.