On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Felipe Contreras >>> i myself want guarantees. not just their word that they will behave. >>> "oops my bad"! just doesnt cut it. if its not gpl im not contributing. >> >> There will never be a guarantee that they will become community >> members, which is what I care about. > > contributing is voluntary right? they can contribute when they want > to. i just dont like them building a better product on code i > contributed then bitch slap me with it. its just way cheaper to > collaborate.
Yes, but they would contribute to code they use, and busybox would not be part of that. >> Either way, busybox is not that important, Linux is. Linux developers >> don't care about enforcement, so if busybox does, the only thing that > > thats very interesting... so i can use linux in my product and not > tell anyone about it? Huh? It doesn't matter if people know that you are using Linux or not. In order for a lawsuit to get started, I'd assume it has to be started or blessed by the damaged parties; the copyright owners. Since the copyright owners, Linux developers, have no interest in any of this, you can't sue a company for not distributing Linux's sources, unless you do it by proxy through some other component that is GPL, and that the copyright owners explicitly blessed this legal proceeding; busybox developers. Just tell your ex-boss not to use busybox. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
