Bruce made no legal "demands"

Bruce made no legal "demands"

Posted Oct 2, 2006 18:25 UTC (Mon) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: Bruce made no legal "demands" by rsidd
Parent article: Busy busy busybox

> What Bruce "requests and requires" is not this, but additional text
> inserted in the licence file, saying that while busybox is licensed
> under GPLv2, those bits written by Bruce may also be licensed under
> GPLv3.

I started the forensic analysis to figure out what actual code Bruce was
demanding these notices on. When I found out how little he actually did
in the first place (and that essentially none of it had survived into the
modern version anyway), I got kind of annoyed. (The initial objective
actually wasn't to remove his code, but it's hard to remove his code from
the project when he hasn't _got_ any.)

I find it odd that this is considered newsworthy...

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