Some well-documented, not GPL tar implementations or perhaps a course material on implementing tar?

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  • toybox

    toybox

    • No idea if it supports what you need but toybox has an implementation of tar.

  • pax

    pax archive utility (by michaelforney)

    • (WIP) Non-GPL implementation - https://github.com/michaelforney/pax

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  • libarchive

    Multi-format archive and compression library

    • bsdtar is built on top of libarchive which is mostly under a BSD-2-clause.

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