I'm the ex-busybox maintainer who hooked them up with the SFLC in the first place. The guy who wrote little things like the non-stub versions of sed, sort, mount, bunzip2 _before_ becoming the project's maintainer. The guy who lamented that the busybox lawsuits had never produced a SINGLE LINE of usable code added to the busybox repository (unless you count our copyright notice announcement when you run the multiplexer), who tried to _stop_ the self-financing legal machine the FSF hijacked to force Cisco/Linksys to shut down all their Linux development and reassign the developers to work on Windows? Who left the project because a troll who hadn't written a line of code in a decade was trolling about GPLv3...
You're objecting that someone offered to help me write new code, and get people to use the result? You want to PREVENT the ex-busybox maintainer from writing any more code under a license you disagree with? That's your definition of freedom, we must remain silent if we disagree with you?
You object to Tim Bird PERSONALLY WRITING CODE and contributing it to my project:
http://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/12add511705e
Sheesh.
Look, I'll write a new blog entry collecting all the darn links in one place. I don't expect you to read them, but maybe somebody will.
You haven't even got half the story.
I'm the ex-busybox maintainer who hooked them up with the SFLC in the first place. The guy who wrote little things like the non-stub versions of sed, sort, mount, bunzip2 _before_ becoming the project's maintainer. The guy who lamented that the busybox lawsuits had never produced a SINGLE LINE of usable code added to the busybox repository (unless you count our copyright notice announcement when you run the multiplexer), who tried to _stop_ the self-financing legal machine the FSF hijacked to force Cisco/Linksys to shut down all their Linux development and reassign the developers to work on Windows? Who left the project because a troll who hadn't written a line of code in a decade was trolling about GPLv3...
My toybox project goes back to 2006:
http://landley.net/hg/toybox
http://landley.net/toybox
I explained the rationale for the switch to BSD licensing and the relaunch back when I did it:
http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011
What I'm trying to prevent is FRAGMENTATION of the android command line, which is ALREADY UNDERWAY:
http://beastiebox.sourceforge.net/
http://hg.suckless.org/sbase/
And so on...
You're objecting that someone offered to help me write new code, and get people to use the result? You want to PREVENT the ex-busybox maintainer from writing any more code under a license you disagree with? That's your definition of freedom, we must remain silent if we disagree with you?
You object to Tim Bird PERSONALLY WRITING CODE and contributing it to my project:
http://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/12add511705e
Sheesh.
Look, I'll write a new blog entry collecting all the darn links in one place. I don't expect you to read them, but maybe somebody will.