I proposed yesterday: >> Therefore, my suggestion now is to change this: >> "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n" >> "and others. Licensed under GPLv2.\n" >> "See source distribution for full notice.\n" >> to this: >> "BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2012.\n" >> "Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed\n" >> "copyright notices.\n"
Tito wrote at 08:01 (EDT): > I'm for keeping it simple. This seems to be the consensus. I'm therefore proposing the attached patch. Tito wrote at 16:01 (EDT) on Thursday: > This is ok for me if the lawyers ack it. Indeed, before I posted, I did check with Conservancy's General Counsel, Tony Sebro (cc'ed), and he did approve the text as adequate for our purposes and a reasonable solution, given other constraints of size. Tito wrote at 08:01 (EDT): > People that wants to infringe on the license doesn't care > anyway.....or will delete them. Deleting it means they're committing willful copyright infringement which in most jurisdictions increase the civil penalties. Meanwhile, IIRC, the whole point of putting this text in there was to catch non-willful infrigers, who don't even bother to remove the notice or make any attempt to comply with GPL. It's still useful for that purpose. [email protected] wrote at 01:40 (EDT): >>> For full desktop installations the few bytes of the full copyright >>> usually doesn't matter. As this the full notice shall be the >>> default. On systems where size really matters the maintainer may >>> disable full copyright notice in the binary. Meanwhile, I don't think a "configurable longer" copyright notice does us any good, so I didn't include that in my patch. The patch is attached. You can also pull it from: git pull git://gitorious.org/busybox/busybox.git bkuhn/new-copyright-notice
>From abbfa2a1162c1c3f4ee999c21247360a3929b0f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bradley M. Kuhn <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:38:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify copyright/license notice that appears in the binary. Existing copyright notice for binary would need to be longer to achieve optimal accuracy. This compromise punts to the source for full notices, but does note the years of the copyrights and that there are many authors, all licensing under GPLv2. Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tony Sebro <[email protected]> --- libbb/appletlib.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/libbb/appletlib.c b/libbb/appletlib.c index 09e886d..da13bf3 100644 --- a/libbb/appletlib.c +++ b/libbb/appletlib.c @@ -627,9 +627,9 @@ static int busybox_main(char **argv) full_write2_str(bb_banner); /* reuse const string */ full_write2_str(" multi-call binary.\n"); /* reuse */ full_write2_str( - "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n" - "and others. Licensed under GPLv2.\n" - "See source distribution for full notice.\n" + "BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2012.\n" + "Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed\n" + "copyright notices.\n" "\n" "Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]\n" " or: busybox --list"IF_FEATURE_INSTALLER("[-full]")"\n" -- 1.7.2.5
-- -- bkuhn
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