Amusing article about busybox

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at
Sun Feb 12 10:29:17 UTC 2012


On Son, 2012-02-12 at 01:26 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
[...]
> It doesn't matter why the GPL exists, it only matters why the
> copyright holders chose it. If they realize the GPL is doing a
> disservice to them, they might choose something else.

But you cannot change the license of already released versions *and* you
need the agreement of all copyright holders to change the license.

And that's what some (if not many) people motivates to work on GPL
software (and to not work with other licenses).

	Bernd
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