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PeaZip

PeaZip is a cross-platform file archiver and encryption utility for Windows, Linux and macOS. The software is released under the GNU LGPLv3 open source licence and is free for personal, professional and commercial use.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. All software packages published by the PeaZip project are released under the GNU LGPLv3 licence and are free for personal, professional and commercial use.[1]

  2. Website text, documentation and application language files are released under the GNU FDL unless otherwise specified, while third-party contributions to the software fall under LGPLv3.[2]

  3. Third parties may freely host and redistribute PeaZip under the terms of the LGPLv3.[3]

  4. Because it contains strong cryptographic functions, PeaZip is classified in export category 5D002 under the Wassenaar Arrangement coding.[4]

  5. PeaZip builds on open source compression technologies including 7-Zip/p7zip, Zstandard, Brotli, FreeArc, PAQ and the PEA archiving and encryption project.[5]

Products

References

  1. Terms of Service and Privacy notice | PeaZip project · peazip.github.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Terms of Service and Privacy notice | PeaZip project · peazip.github.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Terms of Service and Privacy notice | PeaZip project · peazip.github.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Terms of Service and Privacy notice | PeaZip project · peazip.github.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
  5. PeaZip free archiver utility, open extract RAR TAR ZIP files · peazip.github.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
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