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7-Zip
Sign in to save7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z introduced in 2001, but can read and write several others.
Key facts
- Software.language
- Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Extremaduran, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Indian, Hebrew, Hindi, Indian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Karakalpak - Latin, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish - Sorani, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Mongolian (MenkCode), Mongolian (Unicode), Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Punjabi, Indian, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Indian, Serbian - Cyrillic, Serbian - Latin, Sinhala, Vietnam, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valencian, Vietnamese, Welsh, YorubaThese translations are partial and for the user interface only. Help and documentations are in English.
- Software.size
- 1.1–1.7 MB
- Software.genre
- File archiver
- Software.license
- LGPL-2.1-or-later with unRAR restriction / LZMA SDK in the public domain
- Software.name
- 7-Zip
- Software.logo
- 7ziplogo.svg
- Software.screenshot
- 7-Zip.png
- Software.caption
- 7-Zip File Manager on Windows 11
- Software.developer
- Igor Pavlov
- Software.programming language
- Assembly, C and C++
- Software.operating system
- Windows 2000 or laterReactOSBSDmacOSLinux
- Software.language count
- 89
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free and open-source software
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Developer
- Igor Pavlov
- Official website
- 7-zip.org
- Image
- 7-Zip.png
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- operating system
- Windows Mobile
- inception
- 1999-07-18
- Commons category
- 7-Zip
- software version identifier
- 26.00
- programmed in
- C
- copyright license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- Commons gallery
- 7-Zip
- name in kana
- セブンジップ
- source code repository URL
- github.com/ip7z/7zip
- GUI toolkit or framework
- command-line interface
- derivative work
- p7zip
- has edition or translation
- p7zip
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Archive formats
- 7z
- Others
- File manager
- Features
- Versions
- Forks
- Plugins
- Software development kit
- Security
- Reception and usage
- See also
- References
- External links
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z introduced in 2001, but can read and write several others.
The program can be used from a Windows graphical user interface that also features shell integration, or from a command-line interface as the command 7z that offers cross-platform support (see versions for details). An obsolete port of 7-Zip to POSIX systems was called p7zip. Most of the 7-Zip source code is under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license; the unRAR code, however, is under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license with an "unRAR restriction", which states that developers are not permitted to use the code to reverse-engineer the RAR compression algorithm.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “7-Zip” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.