svn commit: trunk/busybox

landley at busybox.net landley at busybox.net
Tue Jan 31 03:45:27 UTC 2006


Author: landley
Date: 2006-01-30 19:45:26 -0800 (Mon, 30 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 13744

Log:
Not on libbusybox.so: it's GPL, no API barrier, no stability promise.


Modified:
   trunk/busybox/Config.in


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/busybox/Config.in
===================================================================
--- trunk/busybox/Config.in	2006-01-31 02:42:50 UTC (rev 13743)
+++ trunk/busybox/Config.in	2006-01-31 03:45:26 UTC (rev 13744)
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@
 	  used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
 	  standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
 
+	  Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
+	  might act as a copyright barrier.  We can and will modify the
+	  exported function set between releases (even minor version number
+	  changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
+
 	  Say 'N' if in doubt.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX




More information about the busybox-cvs mailing list