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tighter compression for x86 kernels

DISCUSSION Rob Landley 1 participant 1 message Jan 2, 2001

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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

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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 people who compiled stuff with gcc and linked it with glibc wouldn't necessarily be gpl-ing their binary by doing so? (Or the leprosy GPL, or whatever Stallman's renamed it this month. The license text hasn't changed...)

Rob
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