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Eugene Roshal
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| Born | (1972-03-10) 10 March 1972 (age 52) |
| Alma mater | South Ural State University (former Chelyabinsk State Technical University), Faculty of Electronics |
| Occupation | Computer programmer |
| Known for | RAR, WinRAR |
Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, romanized: Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal; born 1972) is a Russian software engineer.
Roshal is best known as the developer of:
The RAR compression algorithm is officially owned by his older brother Alexander,[1] because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."[2]
The author and holder of the copyright of the software is Alexander L. Roshal. [...] Neither RAR binary code, WinRAR binary code, UnRAR source or UnRAR binary code may be used or reverse engineered to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary, without written permission.
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