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GPLv2 licence and original authors should be more clearly shown #1

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esotericnonsense opened this issue Nov 14, 2019 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #36
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GPLv2 licence and original authors should be more clearly shown #1

esotericnonsense opened this issue Nov 14, 2019 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #36

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@esotericnonsense
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esotericnonsense commented Nov 14, 2019 •
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Cargo.toml should probably have the licence in and inclusion in the root.

I think you want this in Cargo.toml:
license = "GPL-2.0-only"

Perhaps the AUTHORS file from busybox as well.

Great work!
@alexellis
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LICENSE at the root of the project and at the end of the README would be great too. I couldn't find the license at all.

@ratherDashing
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I’m working on a project that I’ve been looking for something like this but also concerned about the license. Before I look at the code please license this software.

@lbmn
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lbmn commented Nov 15, 2019

Using a copyfree license would give your project a competitive advantage...

@LongJohnCoder
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Using a copyfree license would give your project a competitive advantage...

The rustybox source is derived from busybox which is GPL, so this code is also under GPL. Language translation does not release the license requirements, so switching to a less restrictive license is not possible without permission of the busybox copyright owners.

blt added a commit to blt/rustybox that referenced this issue Aug 2, 2020
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19ab12d 
The original Busybox source notes that it is distributed under GPL-2.
This notice was retained in this project in file headers but appeared
to be absent from a top-level notice or in Cargo.toml.

Resolves samuela#1.
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