BusyBox settles another lawsuit

While what Rob requests is nice to have (all of us prefer useful patches to a tarball of
garbage 
from a vendor), this is NOT compliance with the license.  Rob will take these reasonable
things 
and be happy... that's fine.  But those interested in having a legal framework for Valid,
Global, 
Running Business (which is what embedded is about, make no mistake) cannot rely upon what 
Rob would like to get.  Remember, we got into these discussions because the busybox project is

interested in "enforcement" of the License and has sued people over it.  That license is the
GPL... 
only.  Rob's post is suggesting people do things that don't amount to compliance when 
compared to the requirements of the license, and that's not good. There are others of us who
are 
copyright holders, many many in fact, and who knows what some others will do in that
situation.

The license language is clear, if one wants to  satisfy the legal requirements and get on with
the 
real work, that's where to look.  If one is  interested in wondering about the legality of
what one 
ships, posting some (perhaps perceived to be) random patches and version numbers seems to 
apply.

J.