GPL version 2 only for BusyBox 1.3.0.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Thu Sep 14 18:53:23 UTC 2006
On Thursday 14 September 2006 1:28 pm, Erik Andersen wrote:
> When the GPLv3 comes out, it will be time for many many
> organizations (including BusyBox) to evaluate the merits of the
> GPLv3, and it may well be time for BusyBox to switch over to
> GPLv3. Or not. Regardless, such a change should be just as
> feasible then as it is now.
We do have the source control history and know which patches are going in
since the switch, and it's not like we haven't cleaned out code we weren't
sure of the license of before. (Speaking of which I still plan to replace
the "with advertising clause" BSD code that's currently in the tree, although
that's partly because a fresh implementation could significantly improve upon
it.)
But just the quick check of the BusyBox codebase I did came up with instances
of GPLv2-only code, some of the code I'd like to add today is GPLv2 only, and
I really don't want to try to police this issue much more than I already
have. I really like having one license, and that license being the same one
that's on the Linux kernel.
But yeah, if the Linux kernel switched to GPLv3, I'd put in the effort to
follow suit.
Rob
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