[maemo-developers] closed tools, Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

I'm certainly far from being a licensing expert. But there is a
paragraph on a page at the busybox site which does make it clear wrt
busybox and releasing source: http://www.busybox.net/license.html

I see a /mnt/initfs/bin/busybox but I don't see the source available
for the busybox 1.00 used in the initfs.

But Mohammed's reply on the bug in question does give me a little more hope.

Best Regards,
Faheem

On 7/2/09, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Faheem Pervez wrote:
>> You sure you have a choice in the matter? Considering how you're
>> already violating the GPL.
>
> I don't know the details of the situation. I just want to remind you
> that the GPL is a distribution licence. That's why we don't get all
> Google's changes to the Linux kernel and Apache back upstream. It seems
> that I've seen people say that Nokia doesn't even distribute the initfs
> tools. If that's the case, there wouldn't be any GPL violation.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
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