On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Applied, thanks! -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
