🧊 freeze/melt in 2026

In an endless quest to create test data for qemount, I stumbled on the source code for 90s archival tool freeze. I hacked around with it and got it working in Linux, but it didn’t come with a license so I was a bit worried about actually using it.

But it turns out Leo Broukhis (of the Underhanded C Contest) never stopped writing code, is active on GitHub, and cheerfully responds to pings.

So we now have freeze / melt on modern systems, and they’re fully MIT licensed.

Thanks, Leo!

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