There was no retroactive relicensing. Binutils 2.17 is still available under the terms of GPLv2, and anyone who has a license to it under those terms continues to have a license to it under those terms. There was also no Mepis lawsuit - the FSF explained to Mepis that they weren't complying with the FSF's understanding of the license, and Mepis complied. So no, those things don't bother me.
Like I said, I have no problem with you working on a more liberally licensed version of Busybox. I don't even have a problem with *your* motivations. My objection is purely to the fact that the reason other people are interested in this is because they want to reduce the probability of being sued when they violate the GPL.
Re: You haven't even got half the story.
Like I said, I have no problem with you working on a more liberally licensed version of Busybox. I don't even have a problem with *your* motivations. My objection is purely to the fact that the reason other people are interested in this is because they want to reduce the probability of being sued when they violate the GPL.