At Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:48pm -0500, David Turner wrote: > I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression > scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensing and > freedom implications of this. > > The compressor rewrites an executable (in the FreeDOS case, one under > the GPL), inserting decompression code. This creates a derivative work > of the GPL software, so the decompression code at least would need to be > under the GPL. > > The copyright holders of FreeDOS could write an exception to allow > non-GPL decompressor code. In order to do this, all copyright holders > would have to agree. This would solve the licensing problem, but the > output of the decompressor would not be Free Software. So, I hope you > won't choose to use a non-free executable compressor.
UPX is GPL'd, if you build your own copy... -uso. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
