[email protected] wrote:
IMO it may be a personal decision on many different aspects if we
include a lengthy copyright notice within the binary or not. We can
have a configuration option to select between a full list of all
copyright holders (automatically generated from special "/* Copyright:"
header lines in the source, or a short copyright notice (as noted
above).
Who would want this whole list in the binary, or in other words, who
would choose that option?
In addition the copyright text shall be included in the binary
as compressed text (gzip, lzma, etc.).
I think it is more useful to have a short text that you can find with
strings than a long text that must be run through the program on the
target platform or found by a special extractor.
In addition Busybox build process shall create an extra text file with
full (and may be extended) copyright message. This file shall be
installed under /usr/share/doc/busybox-VERSION/Copyright, and all
system maintainers shall be forced to put this file on the final
binary system, except if size constrains forbid this (e.g. initramfs).
In such cases the system maintainer shall be forced to publish the
full copyright message on a different way (e.g. web site or system
documentation).
As others have noted, this is incompatible with the GPL.
Ralf
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