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Eugene Roshal
Eugene Roshal
Born	10 March 1972 (age 52); Chelyabinsk, USSR
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.

Career

Roshal is best known as the developer of:

RAR file format (1993)
WinRAR file archiver (1995)
FAR file manager (1996)

RAR is officially owned by his elder brother Alexander,^[1] because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."^[2]

References

↑ win.rar GmbH. "RAR and WinRAR END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA)". RARLAB. 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.
↑ "Google Groups". Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2017.

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[rar_eula-1] win.rar GmbH. "RAR and WinRAR END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA)". RARLAB. 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.

[2] "Google Groups". Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2017.

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