On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 19:50 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > BTW: Remember LZEXE?
LZEXE was distributed with a copyright notice that says confusingly that it is public domain, copyright, and "FREEWARE". it clarifies that "and you can therefore use, copy and distribute it freely. You can also utilize it commercially, i.e. you can use it on programs you intend to sell. " since it places no restrictions on derived works, there's no problem with distributing programs compressed with LZEXE (which therefore include LZEXE components in themselves) under any licence you please. i have no idea under what licence common proprietary libraries (MSVCRT.DLL etc) are distributed. many of them are distributed freely with no restrictions on works that link to them, because their business model assumes that the program using them as well as the platform running them are commercial, proprietary packages for which fees have been paid to the library author. -rishab
