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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Updating busybox config/build system to match current
From:       Sam Ravnborg <sam () ravnborg ! org>
Date:       2006-08-31 21:36:35
Message-ID: 20060831213635.GA13834 () uranus ! ravnborg ! org
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:21:10PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > 
> > How much effort is need to be able to claim copyright and to
> > decide for a wider license when in-kernel?
> 
> Rewriting it from scratch, more or less.
> 
> The problem is it doesn't work that way.  You can't add stuff to remove a 
> copyright, you have to remove stuff to remove a copyright.
For the parts of the kbuild I have in mind there is no-one who has
explicit claimed copyright - but by contributing some may have it implicit.

> As a copyright holder, you can issue another license to your contributions at 
> will (just give people permission), but your permission grant doesn't apply 
> to other people's copyrights.
> 
> > In my personal opinion I have no problems changing from GPLv2 to something
> > a bit broader if that can help other users.
> 
> We have no intention of dropping GPLv2.  The question is should we drop GPLv3?

I was no specific here. "a bit broader" referred to "GPLv2 or later".

Let's end it here anyway.

It's much more interesting to see the final result of vda's patches.

	Sam
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