Hi!
11-Фев-2004 21:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to
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>> BO> c) APACK stub. Conflicts
>> BO> a. do i want to prevent linkage with closed or non-GPL
>> I think, using exepacker and or archiver _on_ (or joining unpacker _with_) program
>> is not linkage _into_ program.
LG> Yes, I think so, and Joergen Ibsen thinks so, but does anybody ask HIM who
LG> should know best?! Just because the GPL FAQ says that simple coexistence in
LG> one executable is "combining" and not "aggregation", doesn't mean that the
LG> parts of the compressed executable (the header, the stub and the data) are
LG> in any way linked together more than for example the files in a ZIP archive.
1. You may create SFX archive. Some archivers even allow to add scriptable
stub, which automatically runs executable after unpacking.
2. Some programs allows to work with data (for examples, images) directly in
archives. With some add-on (say, ZipMagic) you may work with archives as
with plain directories.
3. There exists disk-compression programs (like Stacker), which store
programs and data in compressed form inside its "disk"-archive.
How this differs from exepackers? You may say: exepacker stub doesn't
unpacks executable to disk. But in case of ZipMagic or Stacker you also get
"on the fly" unpacking into memory. So, because exepacker isn't essential
part of program, it may be counted as kind of SFX-archive. Thus, if you have
rights to distribute archive and its SFX-stub (is it closed source or not),
then you have rights to distribute anything inside this archive (until this
"anything" allows own distribution).
LG> O, tempora, o, lawyers! ;-G
PS: Lucho! Do you seen my other messages? Looks like you lost all messages
from me - direct sendings are rejected, posts into groups you don't
answer...
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