Bone Baboon <bone.bab...@disroot.org> writes: > Joshua Branson writes: >> I believe that busybox has a more permissive license than coreutils? > > Looking at the coreutils repository I can see that it is using GPL > version 3 > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/COPYING>. When I > run `guix search coreutils` the output says the license is "GPL 3+". > Looking at an individual source code file I can see that it says "either > version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat.c>. > > BusyBox is licensed under the GPL version > 2. <https://www.busybox.net/license.html>. "To summarize: every version > of BusyBox may be distributed under the terms of GPL version 2. New > versions (after 1.2.2), as a whole, may only be distributed under GPLv2, > not under other versions of the GPL." > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3> > gives me the impression that GPL version 2 is more permissive than GPL > version 3.
Thanks for clarifying! -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
