Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Jan 31, 2012 20:25 UTC (Tue) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by BrucePerens
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

I didn't say it was invented as part of busybox, I was pointing out an instance of it predating busybox in one of the components of the original busybox. I.E. here's proof it WASN'T an original invention in busybox.

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Jan 31, 2012 20:41 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

This is the straw man fallacy. I never claimed to invent it, you argue that I didn't invent it.

What I did was make a tiny replacement of the entire Unix command line toolkit necessary for a limited purpose that ran like the command line programs it replaced, not like the "stand-alone shell" programs that people were making around then. I made the first, what follows are destined to be clones and copies.

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Jan 31, 2012 20:45 UTC (Tue) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link]

For the record, the pnmtools set also used the method of swiss-army-knife linking by the early 90s.