should all BB code be GPL?

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Fri Jul 28 20:53:43 UTC 2006


On Friday 28 July 2006 22:11, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 6:45 am, Glenn L McGrath wrote:
> > > 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 

Hi,
strings is a complete rewrite.
The BSD stuff is in it only because I used a previous 
version as template and at the time I didn't know
about this licensing issues and dared not to rip it out.
Maybe whe can do it know....
 
Ciao,
Tito
> 
> ./miscutils/strings.c
> 
> Haven't looked.
> 
> ./util-linux/fdisk.c
> 
> Known crap.  It's on my hit list.
> 
> > Glenn
> 
> Rob



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