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Squashfs-tools

Squashfs-tools is the open-source set of tools (mksquashfs, unsquashfs) for creating and extracting Squashfs compressed filesystems, maintained by Phillip Lougher. It is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or later.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. The plougher/squashfs-tools GitHub repository is the official Squashfs-tools repository, and its COPYING file contains the GNU General Public License.[1]

  2. The COPYING file is the GNU General Public License version 2 (June 1991).[2]

  3. The mksquashfs source may be redistributed and modified under the GNU GPL version 2 or, at the user's option, any later version.[3]

  4. Releases may already be packaged by Linux distributions; the repository also documents how to build and install the tools from source.[4]

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References

  1. Squashfs-tools README.md · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Squashfs-tools COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Squashfs-tools mksquashfs.c · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Squashfs-tools README.md · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
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