[git commit] Simplify copyright/license notice that appears in the binary.

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 26 11:17:06 UTC 2012


commit: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0e941d542736dc5eb69add1d3377a4601536eb97
branch: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Existing copyright notice for binary would need to be longer to achieve
optimal accuracy.  This compromise punts to the source for full notices,
but does note the years of the copyrights and that there are many authors,
all licensing under GPLv2.

Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
 libbb/appletlib.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libbb/appletlib.c b/libbb/appletlib.c
index 09e886d..da13bf3 100644
--- a/libbb/appletlib.c
+++ b/libbb/appletlib.c
@@ -627,9 +627,9 @@ static int busybox_main(char **argv)
 		full_write2_str(bb_banner); /* reuse const string */
 		full_write2_str(" multi-call binary.\n"); /* reuse */
 		full_write2_str(
-			"Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n"
-			"and others. Licensed under GPLv2.\n"
-			"See source distribution for full notice.\n"
+			"BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2012.\n"
+			"Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed\n"
+			"copyright notices.\n"
 			"\n"
 			"Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]\n"
 			"   or: busybox --list"IF_FEATURE_INSTALLER("[-full]")"\n"


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