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Subject:    R: Re: Re: Re: Re: coordinated compliance efforts addresses the issues of this thread (was Re: Amusi
From:       "farmatito () tiscali ! it" <farmatito () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2012-10-15 13:29:06
Message-ID: 14253006.84541350307746279.JavaMail.root () ps-wm27 ! mc ! tiscali ! sys
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You can turn it how you want yet every entity that distributes
busybox, as it is about busybox GPL license enforcement we are 
talking
all the time, must distribute also the source code unmodified or 
not,
there is nothing you can do about it as it is impossible to change 
the license.
If the end user could sue a company to get the sorce code of busybox
under the GPL is to be seen in court (maybe it already was with 
success...)
and is mostly a matter of time and money one is willing to spend.
Nonetheless busybox is and will remain under the GPL and therefore
you have to show the code, as an alternative i can reccomend you
google's toolbox.
That's it.

----Messaggio originale----
Da: felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Data: 15/10/2012 11.48
A: "farmatito@tiscali.it"<farmatito@tiscali.it>
Cc: <busybox@busybox.net>
Ogg: Re: Re: Re: Re: coordinated compliance efforts addresses the 
issues of this thread (was Re: Amusing article about busybox)

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:03 AM, farmatito@tiscali.it
<farmatito@tiscali.it> wrote:
> To stay practical would you please show me how do you relicense
> busybox
> to some different license?
> Even if you can relicense the code in case you are the only 
developer
> or in case
> you can make all developers and conributors agree to the change 
for
> the binaries
> distributed before the relicensing occurred source code must be 
made
> available.
> For this very same reason you can fork busybox but cannot change 
the
> license
> at your will as:

We are not talking about busybox. On *my* software, *I* have the
rights, not the users. I grant privileges to the users.

The exact same thing happens with busybox. The fact it's not easy 
for
busybox developers to change the license of the whole thing doesn't
change the facts; busybox developers have the rights, they grant
privileges to the users.

-- 
Felipe Contreras





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