Thanks a lot Rob for your reply. Will talk with my legal team why they felt this license is required.
Sorry for late reply, I was OOO. Regards, Amar M. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> Sent: 28 May 2021 17:40 To: Amar Mhetre <amar.mhe...@veritas.com>; busybox@busybox.net Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: About Bzip2 license version used for Busybox On 5/27/21 10:05 AM, Amar Mhetre wrote: > Hello, > > We wanted to use the busybox in our product. We got the details about > use of > GPLv2 license for busybox. Our legal team also asked to have Bzip2 > licence for using this component. We don't know which version of Bzip2 > license to be mentioned and its copyright, can someone please suggest > how busybox.bz2 is compressed and which licence version is used for > busybox.bz2 files? Long ago I wrote the bunzip2 implementation used in busybox: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0d6d88a2058d They've modified it a bit since, but there's a 0BSD licensed version of mostly the same code available in toybox, so presumably you can use it under any license you like? https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/other/bzcat.c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain-equivalent_license The one in busybox is GPLv2. I note that the compression code used to _create_ an archive doesn't affect the license of the resulting archive. (The same way compiling a program with Microsoft's C compiler doesn't put it the resulting binary under the same license as Microsoft's C compiler.) Rob _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
