should all BB code be GPL?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Jul 12 15:35:55 UTC 2006
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:26:01AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> While that may be legal, it is immoral to not communicate the
> original intent of the author. Such an action smells of historical
> revisionism.
i didn't deal with all the files yet, and i was careful to leave any
existing licensing info in the source files.
rday
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