Re: [PATCH] Add a 'busybox --list name' option to display script content Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-11 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:10:33 + Ron Yorston wrote: > Add an option to allow the content of embedded scripts to be > displayed. > > It's disabled by default. When enabled: I'd enable it unconditionally when embedded scripts are enabled. And i would much prefer to name the option --show.

Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-11 Thread Ron Yorston
Michael Conrad wrote: >Anyone with gdb would be able to extract the table and then >decompress it back to the original directory of scripts. Or a script like this: # # Extract bzip2 encoded data embedded in the busybox binary. # # Such data is compressed with 'bzip -1' so the first few

Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-10 Thread Sam Liddicott
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 16:51 Michael Conrad On 11/7/2018 10:49 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: > > Kang-Che Sung wrote: > > Specifically, I think the current state of config ASH_EMBEDDED_SCRIPTS > help text did not yet warn builders that the binary may be distributed **only > when the embedding scripts are

Re: [PATCH] Add a 'busybox --list name' option to display script content Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-09 Thread Kang-Che Sung
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 2:10 AM Ron Yorston wrote: > > Add an option to allow the content of embedded scripts to be > displayed. > > It's disabled by default. When enabled: > > function old new delta > run_applet_and_exit

Re: [PATCH] Add a 'busybox --list name' option to display script content Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-09 Thread Tito
Hi, I'am speechless... but we still need an option to colorize the output ;-) Ciao, Tito On 09/11/18 19:10, Ron Yorston wrote: Add an option to allow the content of embedded scripts to be displayed. It's disabled by default. When enabled: function

[PATCH] Add a 'busybox --list name' option to display script content Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Add an option to allow the content of embedded scripts to be displayed. It's disabled by default. When enabled: function old new delta run_applet_and_exit 728 801 +73 .rodata

Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Michael Conrad wrote: >Maybe if >busybox had an option to dump out the scripts it would help enforce the >idea that the sources were being shipped.  Wonder how many bytes that >would require... 122, apparently. $ make bloatcheck function old new

Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-09 Thread Michael Conrad
On 11/7/2018 10:49 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: Kang-Che Sung wrote: Specifically, I think the current state of config ASH_EMBEDDED_SCRIPTS help text did not yet warn builders that the binary may be distributed **only when the embedding scripts are GPLv2-compatible**. Builder and distributors may

Re: License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-07 Thread Ron Yorston
Kang-Che Sung wrote: >Since we are introducing the feature of embedding scripts into BusyBox, and >user may now include and build their custom scripts into the BusyBox binary, I >think there's one thing we forgot to address when this binary would be >distributed. That is: the license problem. I

License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

2018-11-07 Thread Kang-Che Sung
Since we are introducing the feature of embedding scripts into BusyBox, and user may now include and build their custom scripts into the BusyBox binary, I think there's one thing we forgot to address when this binary would be distributed. That is: the license problem. Specifically, I think the