Busybox under closed-source-license avaiable?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 12 13:48:21 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:24:32 pm Lin Xbasu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you please tell me, whether it is possible to get a license for the
> busybox to distribute it as object code / executable without beeing forced
> to publish the source code as GPL does?

I think busybox had many contributors over the years, and it's virtually
impossible to contact them all and convince every single one of them
to agree on this.

You have to comply with GPL v2. Which is not difficult and costs nothing.
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vda



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