Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Jan 31, 2012 20:47 UTC (Tue) by welinder (guest, #4699)
In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by landley
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

> Oh, and [...] Perens got the idea of a swiss-army-knife executable
> from gzip, it was not original with him.

That idea is older than BusyBox. Much, much older. I was doing that
in the mid-80s and I am certain it wasn't original.

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Feb 1, 2012 1:21 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

Agreed. I misspoke: my point was that he didn't come up with it, and in fact included a component that was already using that trick in its original upstream version.

I didn't mean that nobody had ever used it before that.