Re: An update
What I would like to ask is whether the new owner is the same SoftDeluxe that owns the Free Download Manager product (also GPLed) that is listed on SpyWare Guide?
Yes. That's actually a site we came across as well, when we were first discussing the agreement. Paul pointed out that there are similar company listings on that site for Opera, Macromedia, Mozilla, Agnitum, Kaspersky, Kerio, Iomega, mIRC, MySpace, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, SpyBot, steganos, Toshiba, Winzip, ZoneLabs, etc.
In other words, a company listing there is not indicative of spyware. In this case, it's indicative that the software "phones home" at some point (to check for updates, validate a license key, etc).