Copyright message for 1.20.2?

[Tito]

On Friday 13 July 2012 10:01:41 Laurent Bercot wrote:
> > In addition Busybox build process shall create an extra text file with
> > full (and may be extended) copyright message. This file shall be
> > installed under /usr/share/doc/busybox-VERSION/Copyright, and all
> > system maintainers shall be forced to put this file on the final
> > binary system, except if size constrains forbid this (e.g. initramfs).
> > In such cases the system maintainer shall be forced to publish the
> > full copyright message on a different way (e.g. web site or system
> > documentation).
> 
>  Not to troll or anything, but this strikes me oddly as reinventing
> the Original BSD license's advertising clause, which has been flagged
> as *obnoxious* and fought so valiantly by GPL zealots:
>  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
> 
>  So, would that "copyright publishing obligation" be compatible with
> the GPL, or would it also be deemed obnoxious ?
> 
> 
Hi,
I'm for keeping it simple. A notice in the binary and
the full license in the source, eventually a list of 
the code contributors. People that wants to infringe
on the license doesn't care anyway.....or will delete
them.

Ciao,
Tito