[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> If the underlying library is LGPL, it would
> require us to distribute its sources along with the Windows binaries,
> which I'm not willing to do.

Martin, this is wrong, you don't have to bundle the source *in* the object code package. Making it available on some HTTP or FTP site is sufficient.
(actually, if we don't modify the library source, we can even point at the original download site)

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