GPL violation in Netopsystems FEAD Optimizer/Recomposer used by Adobe Reader Install package

Markus Mikkolainen itm at itmo.dyndns.org
Mon Jan 23 19:52:29 CET 2006


> >So this is proof of concept that they use UPX,
> >which is copyrighted by the
> >GPL.
> I believe you need a prof that they use UPX code and not only that the
> algorithm/format is the same as UPX.

yes, but why be "compatible" with UPX but not compatible enough to work? why
have similar header fields but fill them with NOS instead etc. ? This is a 
strong indication of stolen code, not proof but a strong indication.



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