Talk:KGB Archiver

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KGB is basically a PAQ6 clone. In fact KGB is PAQ6v2 with a GUI created on top of it. Unfortunately the author of KGB doesn't respect the GPL license of PAQ6 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ).

Should we remove KGB Archiver from Wiki as it clearly violated the GPL?.

No. Renegadeviking 2:52PM 10/11/06

I used 1.2.1.24 and it is under GPL, so as for I can see there should be no license issues.

[edit] PAQ8 KGB Archiver?

Is there a graphical front end for PAQ8 yet? Renegadeviking 2:52PM 10/11/06

PeaZip is a graphical frontend for Matt Mahoney's PAQ8F and Bill Pettis's PAQ8JD; you can create, browse and extract archives in those two PAQ8 formats. The original PAQ executables used doesn't support additional features, like encryption (that is instead integrated in KGB Archiver), solid archiving or volume spanning, which however you can perform in a second pass using another PeaZip supported format with those features, like split, PEA or 7Z.

THE BEST COMPRESSION TOOL EVER! -- Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia|wanna Talk? 02:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't know is KGB Archiver PAQ spinoff or not, but I find it very useful tool and I think Wikipedia should have article about it. Imagine if many years ago Wikipedia have deleted article about Winamp or DC++ because of lack of notability. Lets wait and see how KGB Archiver develops. DasReboot (talk) 21:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)