Re: Binary Differencer/Patcher for OS X?
Re: Binary Differencer/Patcher for OS X?
- Subject: Re: Binary Differencer/Patcher for OS X?
- From: Axel Andersson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:20:37 +0200
On Friday, Apr 11, 2003, at 01:34 Europe/Stockholm, Steve Bennett wrote:
Does anyone know of a program or set of programs that run on Mac OS X
and
allow me to take two versions of a binary file, create a small patch
file
from them, and later recreate the later version of the binary file
from the
older version of the file and it's patch? I need to do both of these
native
on OS X, and distribute it as part of our commercial package's
automated
update program.
[snip]
(FLAME ON -- Really, I understand the basic concept behind the GPL
license,
but making GPL software completely unusable for commercial projects is
bloody annoying. I've stuck more than my share of software into the
public
domain and it will be a cold day in Hell before I GPL one bit of it.
GPL
software *isn't* free -- the cost is your OWN code, which is worth a
lot
more... <grrr> -- FLAME OFF)
While I don't have any suggestions on a binary patch program, could you
please explain your intentions with such a program? I don't think
there's anything in the GPL to stop you from simply using an
application for commercial purposes. Those clauses are more related to
the redistribution or incorporation of the source code of said would-be
application.
Or did I misread, are you going to build something off the source of
the patcher?
Axel Andersson
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