7-Zip is released under LGPL by Igor Pavlov. p7zip is released under LGPL by Myspace and is derived from Igor Pavlov's 7-Zip. Rar29.dll (Rar29.so on Linux systems) brings additional restriction: the unRAR sources cannot be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary. If you don't need to handle Rar format you can simply remove it. Reference: http://www.7-zip.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/ https://github.com/szcnick/p7zip https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd