should all BB code be GPL?

[Paul Fox]

 > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
 > 
 > > On Monday 10 July 2006 7:20 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
 > > >   i was just about to write a perl script to go through the source
 > > > files and replace any GPL-related verbosity with the single-line
 > > > boilerplate for brevity until i read this in
 > > > libbb/change_identity.c (sorry about the ugly re-formatting, you
 > > > can blame pine):
 > >
 > > All busybox code _is_ GPL.  If it isn't, we can't ship it in a GPL
 > > project.
 > 
 > ok, then, so i can fire up a script and replace all other licensing
 > crap in BB source files with that one-line boilerplate, then?

i don't understand.  the tinylogin distribution, on which much of
the busybox login stuff is based, is pretty clear about having a
BSD-style license, with restrictions that copyright notices
appear both in the source and the documentation.  we can
certainly GPL the code, but don't we have to continue honoring
julianne haugh's "advertising clause"?

(and, i certainly hope you weren't planning on dropping the Copyright
notices altogether.)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com