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Re: Pack busybox using guix, but make check have fail tests
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Bone Baboon |
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Re: Pack busybox using guix, but make check have fail tests |
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Mon, 24 May 2021 10:11:01 -0400 |
Joshua Branson writes:
> I believe that busybox has a more permissive license than coreutils?
Looking at the coreutils repository I can see that it is using GPL
version 3
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/COPYING>. When I
run `guix search coreutils` the output says the license is "GPL 3+".
Looking at an individual source code file I can see that it says "either
version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat.c>.
BusyBox is licensed under the GPL version
2. <https://www.busybox.net/license.html>. "To summarize: every version
of BusyBox may be distributed under the terms of GPL version 2. New
versions (after 1.2.2), as a whole, may only be distributed under GPLv2,
not under other versions of the GPL."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3>
gives me the impression that GPL version 2 is more permissive than GPL
version 3.