2008/10/13 walter harms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Rob Landley schrieb: >> On Sunday 12 October 2008 09:25:50 Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: >>> 2008/10/12 Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:24:32 pm Lin Xbasu wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Can you please tell me, whether it is possible to get a license for the >>>>> busybox to distribute it as object code / executable without beeing >>>>> forced to publish the source code as GPL does? >>>> I think busybox had many contributors over the years, and it's virtually >>>> impossible to contact them all and convince every single one of them >>>> to agree on this. >>>> >>>> You have to comply with GPL v2. Which is not difficult and costs nothing. >>> In case you want deliver your specific proprietary command line >>> executable and you would like to keep its size very small then you can >>> compile it linking against busybox library. >> >> Where'd you get that from? Libbb has never promised a stable documented API >> to act as a barrier limiting derived work status. >> >> Your interpretation of events also goes against the fact that trolltech has >> been saying for years that you can't dynamically link against their GPL-only >> qt libraries, which are dynamic libraries by the way... >> >>> Remember that GPL allow >>> only dynamic linking, static should enforce GPL redistributions terms >>> and make your application bigger. >> >> Where does the text of the GPL mention dynamic vs static linking? I haven't >> read it this week, but I'm sure I'd have remembered. (I sent three fedex >> envelopes to the SFLC over the past two weeks about busybox license >> enforcement. I suspect if it was as clear cut as you say they would have >> mentioned something by now...) >> > > I think the case is closed 8at least in Germany). The courts decided that > it does not matter what static/dynamic/dlopen. this is long term practice. > this is the reason why LGPL is introduced and libreadline is GPL. >
Could you give us a link/reference to that Germany case? Thanks, -- /roberto _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
