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BusyBox settles another lawsuit

BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 27, 2008 0:49 UTC (Thu) by samroberts (subscriber, #46749)
In reply to: BusyBox settles another lawsuit by landley
Parent article: BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Rob, do you work for the SFLC? Just wondering, because your statements 
don't seem to agree with those at

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html

My understanding of what the busybox lawsuits mean is that the 3 things 
you list above are NOT sufficient. In particular, not distributing the 
source because you didn't actually change it, and people can just go 
download it from where you got it is not good enough.

I don't believe we can just say "hey, its foozit v3.2.1, unmodified, get 
it over there". 

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#Unchan...

And if you changed it I don't think you can provide just a patch, either.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#Distri...

Cheers.



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