Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Why do you insist that I'm not behind my own project? Did it escape you that not only am I mentioned by NAME on the wiki page you linked to, but the other wiki page it links to http://www.elinux.org/Busybox_replacement is a page I put all the actual _content_ on?

The last time Sony gave me any money was travel expenses for speaking at CELF two years ago. I've never received a dime from ANYBODY for doing toybox.

Sony was considering sponsoring the work because they'd like to use the result and for-profit corporations only understand things they're either paying for or being paid for, but whether that would be paying _me_ for my weekends or paying another developer to contribute code to me... who knows? Unlikely to happen now, since you've made it a political hot potato. (Once again, an FSF zealot reduces the amount of code written for Linux with a license tantrum. Driving developers away since 1983!)

But I've been doing Toybox since 2006 for free, and I've been doing it as BSD-licensed project since November for free, and I intend to keep doing it. For reasons that I've blogged about rather a lot, on and off for YEARS:

http://landley.net/notes-2008.html#12-12-2008
http://landley.net/notes-2009.html#15-12-2009
http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#16-12-2011

And I was doing it because my infrastructure is BETTER:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-March/071...

And I mothballed and unmothballed it for years because it was fun to work on but I didn't think it could displace an existing project with a 10 year headstart no matter how much better it was:

http://landley.net/notes-2010.html#05-01-2010

Tim pointed out there was a demand for a BSD-licensed version. My decision to relicense toybox was back in November:

http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011

Since then I've written a number of commands, entirely hobbyist development:

http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/201...

Sigh. I have to go do day job things now, but I'll try to write up a comprehensive blog entry on on this tonight. In the meantime, I've commented rather a lot on the original blog, pointing out that Garrett's welcome to do his own darn license enforcement if he wants to, and if he hasn't written any code anybody actually _uses_ that's NOT MY PROBLEM.