Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

From: Frank v Waveren (fvw@var.cx)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 18:22:40 EST


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; you can redistribute them
   and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
   the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Seems GPL2 to me. I haven't read all of the rest of the page, but
that'd either be dual licensing stuff, or further restrictions, which
would be in contradiction with the GPL.
   

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