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

Peter Korsgaard peter.korsgaard at barco.com
Thu Jun 29 07:18:56 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> writes:

Hi,

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

Why? What would that accomplish? It doesn't seem to give any practical
advantage as any product using busybox most likely uses other
(L)GPL'ed packages (kernel, uclibc, ..) - Which they still have to
provide full sources of.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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