Hi all, I think it would feel "more open" to use the open source (weaker compression) UPX variants. However, I do not think that it is imperative that GPL software "must" be compiled with compilers which are open source themselves. It does help a lot to use at least free compilers (i.e. not TASM / MSVC / ...) because this allows others to modify and recompile the code.
But if you do have a commer*ial supercompiler I think you should be able to compile your GPLed code with it to create a more optimized binary. Again, it should still be POSSIBLE to compile with FREE (not necessarily open) compilers. Otherwise much of the gain of open source is lost. Similar opinion about executable packers. And finally I think the "GNU / Linux" community has had this discussion before, so we should look into the archives for some more settled opinions about using non-open compilers compiling open source software! Eric. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
