Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> The source for upx itself is provided on the upstream website (and >> upx-ucl package is built from it), source for NRV is not available. > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnchangedJustBinary
The source for upx is distributed in upx-ucl source package, isn't this enough? > > Sure, but nobody else can redistribute the resulting binaries unless > they do get special permission (the GPL doesn't allow this, see above). Quoting http://upx.sourceforge.net: All Rights Reserved. This program may be used freely, and you are welcome to redistribute and/or modify it under certain conditions. Also I've just found a mail from Mar 23th, 2011 from upx upstream author (it was also CC'ed to nonf...@release.debian.org, its message-id is <4d90580f.9050...@oberhumer.com>) Robert, upx-nrv is in Debian more than 10 years, and we had dozens of mails with the maintainers discussing all the legal implications back in 2000. I have no idea where all this info and our conclusions are available/archived, though. Cheers, Markus http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?query=upx+license shows that there were some discussions regarding upx licensing in the past. It seems however all of them refer to the ucl version. I cannot find any clues if the conclusions are applicable to the nrv version or not, but there is one thing I'm pretty sure - the upx license hasn't changed at all since upx-nrv was allowed into Debian 12 years ago. I cannot understand why we still have issue with it, and moreover I have no idea how to solve the issue once and forever. Regards, Robert
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