diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c04f3303..4ea83f04 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ User visible changes for UPX ================================================================== -Changes in 4.0.0 (30 Oct 2022): - * Switch to semantic versioning +Changes in 3.99 (27 Oct 2022): + * NOTE: this is a pre-release with known regressions for some ELF formats; + please help testing and reporting bugs, and see our GitHub Actions CI + page for up-to-date pre-built binaries + https://github.com/upx/upx/actions/workflows/ci.yml * SECURITY NOTES: emphasize the security context in the docs + * Support easy building from source code with CMake * Add support for EFI files (PE x86; Kornel Pal) - * Support building with CMake * bug fixes - see https://github.com/upx/upx/milestone/6 Changes in 3.96 (23 Jan 2020): diff --git a/README b/README index 87777da2..931d4b02 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ WELCOME Welcome to UPX ! -Please don't forget to read the file LICENSE - UPX is distributed -under the GNU General Public License (GPL) with special exceptions -allowing the distribution of all compressed executables, including -commercial programs. +UPX is a free, secure, portable, extendable, high-performance +executable packer for several executable formats. INTRODUCTION @@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ UPX is free software distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License. Full source code is available. UPX may be distributed and used freely, even with commercial applications. -See the UPX License Agreement for details. +See the UPX License Agreements for details. SECURITY CONTEXT @@ -94,11 +92,18 @@ redistribute it under certain conditions. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -UPX License Agreement for more details. +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -You should have received a copy of the UPX License Agreement along -with this program; see the file LICENSE. If not, visit the UPX home page. +UPX is distributed with full source code under the terms of the +GNU General Public License v2+; +either under the pure GPLv2+ (see the file COPYING), +or (at your option) under the GPLv+2 with special exceptions and +restrictions granting the free usage for commercial +programs (see the file LICENSE). + +You should have received a copy of the UPX License Agreements along +with this program; see the files COPYING and LICENSE. If not, +visit the UPX home page. Share and enjoy, diff --git a/doc/upx-doc.html b/doc/upx-doc.html index 64231260..6db3b838 100644 --- a/doc/upx-doc.html +++ b/doc/upx-doc.html @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Copyright (c) 1996-2022 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser
UPX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file LICENSE.
+UPX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file COPYING.
Please report all problems or suggestions to the authors. Thanks.
@@ -795,9 +795,11 @@ Jens Medoch <jssg@users.sourceforge.net>This program may be used freely, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the UPX License Agreement for more details.
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-You should have received a copy of the UPX License Agreement along with this program; see the file LICENSE. If not, visit the UPX home page.
+UPX is distributed with full source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2+; either under the pure GPLv2+ (see the file COPYING), or (at your option) under the GPLv+2 with special exceptions and restrictions granting the free usage for commercial programs (see the file LICENSE).
+ +You should have received a copy of the UPX License Agreements along with this program; see the files COPYING and LICENSE. If not, visit the UPX home page.