Hi!
17-Мар-2004 08:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
MKEYB 0.40 released
As sayed Lucho there is 0.39.
JH> I think there's a problem here. If you recall the discussion with Dave JH> Turner (FSF), he said:
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.
Again: looks like here is misunderstanding. Exepacking is not "use compression inside program" and, until exepacker license allows free unpacking stubs (unarchiver) distribution, there shouldn't be any problem. Or I misunderstand GPL and it prevents packing GPLed programs into archives (by unfree programs or programs, with proprietary compression schemes) and it prevents distribution GPLed programs together with unfree software (whereas this unfree software isn't required for free executable and isn't its essential part)?
No, I think you misunderstand the GNU GPL. Packing GPL'd programs into archives that may contain other non-free programs is considered mere aggregation (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?aggregation). You can distictly identify the free and non-free components, and may separate them if you wish. Since you can identify them, it is also easy to provide the source code for the GPL'd components, to meet the conditions of the GNU GPL.
-jh
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