Well, it looks like busybox won't be using GPLv3.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Mon Jan 23 06:51:46 UTC 2006
On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:54, Devin Bayer wrote:
> From the GPLv3 Rational:
>
> For the second class of interfaces, which include command-line
> interfaces, voice-activated interfaces, and so on, the conditions are
> essentially the same as in GPLv2: the modified program must display
> the information at startup, unless the modification was to an
> interactive program that did not display such information at startup.
>
> So basically every UI in busybox complies with the cmdline or "so on"
> interfaces. They just need a little better wording in the license.
>
> -- Devin Bayer
I sent them an email. (I'm reading groklaw's side-by-side thingy.) I expect
they'll iron most of the bugs out before it actually ships.
Rob
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