The FSF maintains a list of high priority projects. Thanks to The Unarchiver initiative, we are now able to extract recent rar files in freedom and the FSF could remove this item from their list. There used to be a free implementation of unrar, but it is outdated and could only extract very old rar archives.
Packages for the new and shiny Unarchiver are already available for Debian and Gentoo. The initiative that made this possible can also be supported via Flattr.