On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:21:51 +0100 "Andrew Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd personally ask to avoid it, their licensing is GPL and in the > "free commerical" license they make reference to this nugget. > > The stub which is imbedded in each UPX compressed program is part > of UPX and UCL, and contains code that is under our copyright. The > terms of the GNU General Public License still apply as compressing > a program is a special form of linking with our stub. > > That alone is enough for the legal guys to start screaming from the hills. > > http://upx.sourceforge.net/upx-license.html
If you have legal qualms, you had better take it up with debian-legal, (checking the list archives first before you raise the issue with them,) as upx has been in Debian since 2000. I can't see anything wrong with the above. They are saying that their code is GPL'd but they make a linking exception for commercial code. They own the copyright, so they are within their rights to set whatever license terms they want. Furthermore, I can't see how this would violate the DFSG. What, then, is your concern? Ben _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
