[PATCH] ls: clean up memory leak

Adam Hawes adamh at adpro.com.au
Wed May 3 23:30:15 UTC 2006


> > Can you post your license please, or if its a standard 
> license, which
> > one ?
> 
> Only my source: may safely be consumed by a BSD or GPL license.
> As second author: previous license.
> For patchs: no a license. If it have a hard work, then added 
> (c) line only
> with comment the work.

You were asked to post your license.  What you'd dribbled here is almost incomprehensible and isn't actually a license of any sort.  Your first point translates roughly to "my source is dual-licensed under BSD and GPL licenses".

I think what you're trying to say is

1.  If you were the initial author of a file then you use your license (which is dual BSD and GPL)
2.  If you modified a file written by someone else then you don't change the license (very good)
3.  You don't license patches, but patches come under point 2 anyway.

You must remember that Busybox is GPL.  Any code that is derived from it must be GPL.  Any code that includes the Busybox (GPL) headers becomes GPL by definition of the license.  You can't change the GPL, and tacking your own license on code that is solely intended to integrate with GPL code does not remove the GPL requirements.  Why not just stop this "i will do it my way jsut because I can" and simply get along with the wishes of the BusyBox team?  Everyone else seems happy with GPL!

> But it has no sense. I do not wish to change the license for my work,
> but why you compel me it to make?

You haven't even shown us the "license" for your code, so how can we make an informed decision as to whether it's acceptable and GPL-compliant?

> I already am afraid to express in this mailist as the 
> maintainer will make
> with the offered idea on the further development exactly on 
> the contrary ;-)

If you're so ashamed of your license that you won't share it with the public then perhaps you need to reconsider using it?  If it's so shameful that you can't tell people what it is then it can't be any good!

just my $0.02 + GST

A



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