Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2001-01-02 Thread Rob Landley
>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 ... > 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 p

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-21 Thread John Reiser
> > Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. >^ > That's not true. Read > http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html The UPX team owns all copyright in all of UPX and in each part of UPX. Therefore, the UPX team may choose which license(

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Jens =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller
- Original Message - From: "Frank v Waveren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adrian Bunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "John Reiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:22 AM Subject: Re: tighter compr

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Frank v Waveren
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:15:13AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. >^ > That's not true. Read > http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html >From that page: UPX and the UCL library are free softw

Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, John Reiser wrote: > Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org > offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. > Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using > "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 ==> 52509

tighter compression for x86 kernels

2000-12-20 Thread John Reiser
Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 ==> 525099, saving 92332 bytes). Both source (GPLv2) and p