[gfsd]Re: address@hidden: More free software]

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

AFAICT, The license below is a GPL-compatible, Free Software license.

Since it grants special permission outside the GPL, it's not a GPL, so we
should not list the software as purely GPL'ed.

Janet: Can you write up a directory entry for this software?



Paul Visscher <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bradley M. Kuhn address@hidden said:
> > Paul Visscher <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > The LZO page links to a page on "UPX". UPX is
> > >
> > >     copyrighted software distributed under the terms of the GNU General
> > >     Public License, with special exceptions granting the free usage for
> > >     commercial programs as stated in the UPX License Agreement.
> >
> > > http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html is the UPX
> > > License Agreement. I don't know if it's a free software license or not.
> >
> > I am bit confused.  Is that "UPX License Agreement" what you quoted above?
> > (I am not connected to a network as I write this).  If the UPX license
> > agreement is more than what is quoted above, please email it to me.
>
> The "UPX License Agreement" is as follows, taken from
> http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html.
>
>
> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>
>                  ooooo     ooo ooooooooo.   ooooooo  ooooo
>                  `888'     `8' `888   `Y88.  `8888    d8'
>                   888       8   888   .d88'    Y888..8P
>                   888       8   888ooo88P'      `8888'
>                   888       8   888            .8PY888.
>                   `88.    .8'   888           d8'  `888b
>                     `YbodP'    o888o        o888o  o88888o
>
>
>                     The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
>           Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar
>                http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
>                           http://www.nexus.hu/upx
>                             http://upx.tsx.org
>
>
> PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU PLAN
> TO MODIFY THE UPX SOURCE CODE OR USE A MODIFIED UPX VERSION.
>
>
> ABSTRACT
> ========
>
>    UPX and UCL are copyrighted software distributed under the terms
>    of the GNU General Public License (hereinafter the "GPL").
>
>    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.
>
>    As a special exception we grant the free usage of UPX for all
>    executables, including commercial programs.
>    See below for details and restrictions.
>
>
> COPYRIGHT
> =========
>
>    UPX and UCL are copyrighted software. All rights remain with the authors.
>
>    UPX is Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
>    UPX is Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Laszlo Molnar
>
>    UCL is Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
>
>
> GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
> ==========================
>
>    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.
>
>    UPX and UCL are distributed in the hope that they will be useful,
>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>    GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>    along with this program; see the file COPYING.
>
>
> SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR COMPRESSED EXECUTABLES
> ============================================
>
>    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.
>
>    Hereby Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer and Laszlo Molnar grant you special
>    permission to freely use and distribute all UPX compressed programs
>    (including commercial ones), subject to the following restrictions:
>
>    1. You must compress your program with a completely unmodified UPX
>       version; either with our precompiled version, or (at your option)
>       with a self compiled version of the unmodified UPX sources as
>       distributed by us.
>    2. This also implies that the UPX stub must be completely unmodfied, i.e.
>       the stub imbedded in your compressed program must be byte-identical
>       to the stub that is produced by the official unmodified UPX version.
>    3. The decompressor and any other code from the stub must exclusively get
>       used by the unmodified UPX stub for decompressing your program at
>       program startup. No portion of the stub may get read, copied,
>       called or otherwise get used or accessed by your program.
>
>
> ANNOTATIONS
> ===========
>
>   - You can use a modified UPX version or modified UPX stub only for
>     programs that are compatible with the GNU General Public License.
>
>   - We grant you special permission to freely use and distribute all UPX
>     compressed programs. But any modification of the UPX stub (such as,
>     but not limited to, removing our copyright string or making your
>     program non-decompressible) will immediately revoke your right to
>     use and distribute a UPX compressed program.
>
>   - UPX is not a software protection tool; by requiring that you use
>     the unmodified UPX version for your proprietary programs we
>     make sure that any user can decompress your program. This protects
>     both you and your users as nobody can hide malicious code -
>     any program that cannot be decompressed is highly suspicious
>     by definition.
>
>   - You can integrate all or part of UPX and UCL into projects that
>     are compatible with the GNU GPL, but obviously you cannot grant
>     any special exceptions beyond the GPL for our code in your project.
>
>   - We want to actively support manufacturers of virus scanners and
>     similar security software. Please contact us if you would like to
>     incorporate parts of UPX or UCL into such a product.
>
>
>
> Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer                   Laszlo Molnar
> address@hidden        address@hidden
>
> Linz, Austria, 25 Feb 2000
>
>
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> >
> >
> > > ----- Forwarded message from address@hidden -----
> > >
> > > Subject: More free software
> > > Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:21:32 EDT
> > > From: address@hidden
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 66
> > >
> > > Hello--
> > >
> > > Another item of free software that might be of interest is the LZO data
> > > compression library. The library is said to be very fast, works on 
> > > multiple
> > > platforms, and is distributed under the GPL.
> > > The web page is http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzo.html
> > >
> > > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > >
> > > --paulv
> >
> >
> >
> >    -- bkuhn
>
>
>
> --paulv



   -- bkuhn

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