No, when I thought that hooking up with a lawfirm to launch busybox license enforcement lawsuits would result in any code added to the BusyBox repository, THAT was naieve. Zealots grabbed that and used it to inflict completely unrelated crap like "license compliance officers" sending reports to the Free Software Foundation (which WAS NOT INVOLVED, yet somehow managed to hijack this to further their own agenda).
Sheesh, one reason I got into BusyBox development in the first place was that I wanted to create a Linux system even Richard Stallman wouldn't try to bracket with "Gnu/Linux/Dammit". A Linux system that didn't have a single line of FSF code in it.
When Pamela Jones (of Groklaw) referred me to the SFLC and I had my first phone call with them, one of the first things I asked was whether they had anything to do with the FSF. They explained that Eben Moglen used to run the FSF's legal arm but chose to distance themselves from him as Stallman got increasingly nuts. Then a year later they got back in bed with the FSF and launched the most counterproductive, disruptive crap since the Mepis lawsuit.
Anybody remember the Mepis lawsuit?
http://lwn.net/Articles/193852/
Where tiny Linux company shipping an Ubuntu reskin had a partnership with Ubuntu, with a quote from Ubuntu's founder in their press release announcing the partnership, but pointing to Ubuntu's servers for the packages they HADN'T MODIFIED wasn't good enough for the FSF, which sued them to make darn sure they were mirroring all 43,000 packages in the Debian repository.
You're not bitching about the way the binutils 2.17 tarball on the FSF's website got replaced in November by a new one containing GPLv3 source files, so people who want to stick with the old GPLv2 version get TRICKED into shipping GPLv3 code by RETROACTIVE RELICENSING, and the last GPLv2 release has been DELETED off the website.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/
No, _that_ doesn't bother you.
A 2-clause BSD-licensed SUSv4+ command line is exactly what I'm writing at http://landley.net/toybox and if people choose to add to it, or find more uses for it, good for them.
Re: You haven't even got half the story.
Sheesh, one reason I got into BusyBox development in the first place was that I wanted to create a Linux system even Richard Stallman wouldn't try to bracket with "Gnu/Linux/Dammit". A Linux system that didn't have a single line of FSF code in it.
When Pamela Jones (of Groklaw) referred me to the SFLC and I had my first phone call with them, one of the first things I asked was whether they had anything to do with the FSF. They explained that Eben Moglen used to run the FSF's legal arm but chose to distance themselves from him as Stallman got increasingly nuts. Then a year later they got back in bed with the FSF and launched the most counterproductive, disruptive crap since the Mepis lawsuit.
Anybody remember the Mepis lawsuit?
http://lwn.net/Articles/193852/
Where tiny Linux company shipping an Ubuntu reskin had a partnership with Ubuntu, with a quote from Ubuntu's founder in their press release announcing the partnership, but pointing to Ubuntu's servers for the packages they HADN'T MODIFIED wasn't good enough for the FSF, which sued them to make darn sure they were mirroring all 43,000 packages in the Debian repository.
You're not bitching about the way the binutils 2.17 tarball on the FSF's website got replaced in November by a new one containing GPLv3 source files, so people who want to stick with the old GPLv2 version get TRICKED into shipping GPLv3 code by RETROACTIVE RELICENSING, and the last GPLv2 release has been DELETED off the website.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/
No, _that_ doesn't bother you.
A 2-clause BSD-licensed SUSv4+ command line is exactly what I'm writing at http://landley.net/toybox and if people choose to add to it, or find more uses for it, good for them.