Eugene Roshal

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Eugene Roshal
Born (1972-03-10) 10 March 1972 (age 52)
Alma materSouth Ural State University (former Chelyabinsk State Technical University), Faculty of Electronics
OccupationComputer programmer
Known forRAR, WinRAR

Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, romanized: Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal; born 1972) is a Russian software engineer.

Career[change | change source]

Roshal is best known as the developer of:

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]

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  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.