luckily both the non-NRV versions of UPX (i.e. the compile yourself
ones, which I have to use in Linux anyway because there are no precompiled
UPX binaries for my ooold libc) and Info-ZIP are find in combination with
GPL license-wise. So if it really bothers you, replace UPX-nrv and RAR by
UPX-open and ZIP.
It doesn't bother ME. Besides, using RAR by itself without SFX is legal, just like using PKZIP.
About aPack / sy2pack: I suggest a tiny howto like
1. UPX -d *.*
2. download aPack
3. compress everything again with aPack
4. you have squeezed out a few % of disk space and created a "fine for GPL" smaller distro which you may, alas, not spread.
If I can't distribute it, what "distro" can it be?! Besides, the kernel is not decompressible because it's modified by EXEFLAT after packing.
PS: Why would NASA or DC get pissed if I de-UPXed their software and aPacked it later? Probably this is related to a de-compression-protected variant of UPX-nrv... Debug-protection. Usual closed source yucky stuff.
In this case NRV is used for real-time data compression, not executable compression.
Lucho
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