On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Aitor Santamarķa Merino wrote: > By the way, I assume from this all that there's no GPL-ed packer. So I > suppose that according to the FSF agenda this means that, as there is no > GPL-ed packer, then I have to give up the ussage of packers, better than > using a closed source one.
there is a completely GPLed packer, called upx-ucl (the one that you get when you compile UPX and UCL from source). It packs slightly weaker than the precompiled upx (upx-nrv). In Tom's comparison, for FreeCOM (~93000 bytes uncompressed) upx-ucl ~ 67500 bytes upx-nrv ~ 66000 bytes apack ~ 63800 bytes > Of course, one can't apply this to kernel, as Bart pointed out, but yet > for whoever wants to use this for his/her utilities. All that needed is a special exception clause to the GPL to clarify (with agreement of all copyright holders). However that makes the utility GPL-incompatible so it is no longer possible to copy/paste from other GPLed sources without permission from the copyright holder. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
