[PATCH] new applet: nmeter

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Aug 24 19:33:17 UTC 2006


On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:34:52PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > There's no reason that you can't allow distribution under "v2 or
> > later" for all files for which that is possible, and put the "v2 only"
> > restriction only on files that were "v2 only" upstream.
> 
> This would be "mere aggregation"?  With the same makefile producing a binary 
> from an arbitrary subset of them?

If you are the copyright holder, you can dual[/triple/multi]-license
the code under whatever license you like regardless of GPL or whether
that code is included in part of a larger work under GPL.

> If I do that, I consider BusyBox binaries to be GPLv2 only, so the "or later" 
> becomes meaningless.

Yes, except that the "or later" is not meaningless to someone wanting
to use a few files in isolation.

Rich




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