Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Jan 31, 2012 20:28 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by dlang
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Oddly enough, I didn't so much leave Busybox as I finished the project. It was complete for my needs, implementing the Debian installer.

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Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Jan 31, 2012 20:41 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

Ok, you finished it and then other people decided to fork it up and extend it to do things that you didn't need.

I'm not sure that's a significant distinction.

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Feb 1, 2012 1:28 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link] (1 responses)

You know, technically if somebody else can take your code and repurpose it as a tiny part of some larger project after you're done with it, and you still get to take credit for the new thing created from your "finished" work, then the _true_ author of busybox is the guy who wrote gunzip. That was the first two applet multiplexer, after all...

Rob

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Feb 1, 2012 1:50 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

This is so ignorant of the context of stuff that was already discussed today, like the multiple people who told you that gunzip is not the first applet multiplexer, and that I haven't claimed it as an invention, that I am wondering if you have just smoked a doobie big enough to erase your short-term memory.