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Apparently that’s only for blob storage (now "object storage), not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob

That’s privilege escalation for you. 7.8 is pretty high.

The compressed binary blob is just a 160 B ELF when uncompressed. I don’t think you can do much with that.

I’m not sure how much of it is obfuscation and how much of it is golfing. Ze golfed it so ze could make the pretty valid “just 732 bytes python script” claim.

The compression could very well be just a way to write a binary in Python plaintext. ChatGPT claims it just attempts to sudo, run /bin/sh if that succeeds, and exit if that fails.

yes, you’re creating a derivative work that is entirely GPL. note that this doesn’t stop anyone from consulting the original since FOSS licenses do not have revocation. if they use none of the GPL derivative work they can still only abide by MIT. however, your changes would only exist in the GPL work, and they must be used with GPL.

The MIT is what’s called a permissive license.

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

Permission is hereby granted , free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense , and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

That’s the entirety of the text. You can do pretty much anything as long as you make sure the first line is still visible somewhere (and if you’re not incorporating/relicensing it into GPL, you have to include the MIT license text as well; I’m less sure about how this parenthetical works but I do know an MIT project relicensed to GPL needs not include the MIT text), which in GPL it is.

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#%3A~%3Atext=Expat)-,This%20is%20a%20lax%2C%20permissive%20non%2Dcopyleft%20free%20software%20license%2C%20compatible%20with%20the%20GNU%20GPL.,-Some

I fuzzily remember that it had happened

proprietary tools or programming languages

Could you give an example?