Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2001-01-02 Thread Rob Landley
>The UPX team owns all copyright in all of UPX and in each part of > UPX. Therefore, the UPX team may choose which license(s), and has > chosen two ... > This permits using UPX to pack a non-GPL executable. Stupid question time: isn't this what the LGPL was designed to do? The Library GPL, so

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2001-01-02 Thread Rob Landley
The UPX team owns all copyright in all of UPX and in each part of UPX. Therefore, the UPX team may choose which license(s), and has chosen two ... This permits using UPX to pack a non-GPL executable. Stupid question time: isn't this what the LGPL was designed to do? The Library GPL, so

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-21 Thread John Reiser
> > Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. >^ > That's not true. Read > http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html The UPX team owns all copyright in all of UPX and in each part of UPX. Therefore, the UPX team may choose which

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-21 Thread John Reiser
Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. ^ That's not true. Read http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html The UPX team owns all copyright in all of UPX and in each part of UPX. Therefore, the UPX team may choose which license(s),

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Jens =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller
- Original Message - From: "Frank v Waveren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adrian Bunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "John Reiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:22 AM Subject: Re: tighter compr

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Frank v Waveren
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:15:13AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. >^ > That's not true. Read > http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html >From that page: UPX and the UCL library are free

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, John Reiser wrote: > Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org > offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. > Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using > "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 ==>

tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread John Reiser
Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 ==> 525099, saving 92332 bytes). Both source (GPLv2) and

tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread John Reiser
Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 == 525099, saving 92332 bytes). Both source (GPLv2) and

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, John Reiser wrote: Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 == 525099,

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Frank v Waveren
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:15:13AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. ^ That's not true. Read http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html From that page: UPX and the UCL library are free software;

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Jens =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller
- Original Message - From: "Frank v Waveren" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Adrian Bunk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "John Reiser" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:22 AM Subject: Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels Seems