Hi Konstantinos,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:21:53AM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On 28 March 2011 07:52, Jim Huang jim.huang@linaro.org wrote:
The problem is the zlib license, it forbids distributing compiled versions that are modified from the original source, such optimizations can go in the contrib folder, but it's of little use to the average user.
There must be some misunderstanding here; no license that prohibited distribution of binaries built from modified source would be considered a Free Software license, and zlib is certainly considered free. :)
The only relevant requirements in the license (according to /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/copyright) are:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
Are you looking at a different zlib license than this one?