The FSF's being stupid again, it seems...

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Jun 28 13:38:45 PDT 2006


So apparently the FSF's mounted a campaign to get people to switch to BSD:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150

And I just thought I'd ping the list about changing our licensing page to say 
that if you have a statement about what exact version of busybox you used, 
with what .config file, and that you didn't modify it, then you don't need to 
provide the source code.

Also, if GPLv3 actually _requires_ this (rather than just having a statement 
good for 3 years to provide the source code on request, as the GPLv2 has), 
that would be (to me) another reason to go for V2 only.

Does anybody else have any opinions on this issue?

Rob
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