BusyBox settles another lawsuit [LWN.net]

BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 8, 2008 22:10 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: BusyBox settles another lawsuit by atai
Parent article: BusyBox settles another lawsuit

>You have to provide the exact source code you use to build the Busybox software you
distribute so people can rebuild them and verify that your binaries do come from this set of
sources.

And that is where the problems begin, for example with code that puts the compilation date
into the binary. That way you will never get the exact MD5 of the originally-shipped binary!
:-(

(Log in to post comments)

BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 9, 2008 7:59 UTC (Sun) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

This should not be a problem... people can verify if your binaries are built this way from the
sources, by modifying the sources to hard code the  dates you have in your binaries...