should all BB code be GPL?

[Glenn L McGrath]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:17:33 -0400
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> 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. Some of it is dual licensed, although I'm pretty happy to
> rip out the notice of the other license since the original authors
> can make it available elsewhere under whatever license they like.
> The _busybox_ version is GPL.

Im a bit concerned about removing the text of BSD license... it says

<snip>
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
<snip>

I wonder if the text of the BSD licence should still stay in there for
legal reasons.

IANAL, but perhaps the text of the BSD licence needs be in there as mere
documentation to satisfy the previous BSD licence.


Glenn