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3 <h2>Toybox is licensed under the terms of GPLv2.</h2>
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5 <p>The complete text of the General Public License version 2 is included in the
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6 file LICENSE in each source tarball. Version 2 is the only version of
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7 this license which toybox is distributed under. (I.E. It doesn't have the
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8 strange "or later" dual license some projects have.)</p>
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10 <h2>Clarifications</h2>
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12 <p>The GPL is a bit old and crufty in places, but it's still the best open
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13 source license there is, and lots of source code (like the Linux kernel) is
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14 distributed under it. Lots of de facto interpretations have sprung up to deal
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15 with things like the fact that it predates the internet service provider
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16 industry. Nothing in the rest of this page changes the actual license, so you
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17 can ignore the rest of this page if you're happy with a strict reading of
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18 GPLv2. But just to be clear, here's how the authors of this project are
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19 interpreting the sucker where it says something stupid.</p>
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21 <p>Section 1: <b>You have permission to rephrase the license notice on
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22 individual source files.</b> This doesn't mean you can change what license the
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23 code is under, or that you can remove other people's copyright notices. You
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24 certainly can't change the test of the GPL itself. What it means is that if
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25 you use this code in a project that distributes source in zip files instead of
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26 tarballs, or your package's copy of the GPLv2 text isn't in a file called
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27 "LICENSE", it's silly to preserve an obsolete notice verbatim and add some
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28 kind of "correction" after the old notice.</p>
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30 <p>Some lawyers seem to think a strict reading of GPLv2 section 1 (and later
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31 sections including section 1 by reference) requires maintaining old notices in
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32 perpetuity. Even if you had code that used to be dual licensed, but created
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33 a derived work that's just under one of the two licenses, so the old license
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34 notice is not just strange or misleading but actually incorrect for the new
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35 file. (For example, splicing GPLv2 only code into a dual "GPLv2 or later"
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36 project produces a result that can be distributed under the terms of GPLv2,
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37 but not GPLv3. The result cannot be distributed under the "or later" part,
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38 so a license notice saying it could is factually wrong.)</p>
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40 <p>I don't know if we're ever going to put any dual licensed code into the tree,
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41 but I want to head that one off now. The actual license text is the important
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42 thing, the per-file notice is a courtesy.</p>
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44 <p>Section 2: <b>We don't put the change history in comments in the source
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45 code, we put it in our source control system.</b> We have source control for a
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46 reason. That's where this information belongs, and that's where we put it.
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47 It's world readable on the web, and you can download a snapshot of the whole
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48 repository if you like. The GPL predates modern source control systems, but
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49 this project does not.</p>
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51 <p>Section 3: <b>We distribute source code through the internet.</b> If
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52 your "written offer" includes a URL, and the source code remains anonymously
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53 downloadable at that location for three years after you stop distributing
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54 binaries, life is good as far as we're concerned. (No, you can't encrypt it,
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55 or require a login, or otherwise be slimy bastards acting in bad faith. We'll
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56 come after you if you're not satisfying the terms of the license, this is just
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57 talking about how you can satisfy those terms without having to mail physical
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58 media. Most people are already doing it this way.)</p>
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60 <p>Also, <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150">what the FSF did to Mepis</a> was inexcusable. (Further discussed
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61 in <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-June/022797.html">this
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62 thread</a>.) Mepis partnered with Ubuntu, put out a press release quoting
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63 Ubuntu's founder about how cool the partnership was, and then pointed to
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64 Ubuntu's source repository for packages it was using unmodified Ubuntu versions
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65 of. As far as we're concerned, Mepis didn't do anything wrong, and the FSF
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66 was a bully. The FSF was wrong when it tried to make an example out of a
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67 company that was acting in good faith.</p>
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69 <p>To make sure the FSF doesn't pick on anyone else against our wishes, we're
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70 clarifying that if you didn't modify the source code, and the binaries you're
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71 distributing can be entirely regenerated from a public upstream source,
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72 pointing to that upstream source in good faith is good enough for us, as long
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73 as they don't mind the extra bandwidth and the correct source code stays
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74 available at that location for the duration of your responsiblity to
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75 redistribute source.</p>
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77 <p>This doesn't mean it's fair for a Fortune 500 company to point millions of
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78 people at somebody's home DSL line (certainly not without asking first).
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79 And if the source that's available there isn't the complete source you used
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80 to produce your binaries, you haven't fulfilled your obligations either.
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81 And if the code stops being available at that location, you're not off the
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82 hook and have to find a new location or put up your own mirror. And obviously
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83 it has to be the _right_ source code (if you modified it, we want the patch,
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84 and claiming you didn't modify it when you actually did is fraud).</p>
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85
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86 <p>This is not a "get out of jail free" card: It's still your responsibility to
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87 make the source available. We're just saying you can reasonably delegate to
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88 something like Sourceforge or ibilbio and as long as everyone who wants the
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89 source can get it, we're happy. If the site you point to objects or goes down,
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90 responsibility obviously reverts to you.</p>
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92 <p>But if this project needs mirrors, we'll _ask_. (Most likely we'll ask
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93 someone like sourceforge, OSL, ISC, ibiblio, archive.org...)</p>
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95 <p>Section 9: <b>Does not apply to this project.</b> We're specifying the
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96 version, it's version 2. There is no "or later versions" clause to require
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97 interpreting.
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99 <hr>
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100 <pre>
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101 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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102 Version 2, June 1991
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103
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104 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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105 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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106 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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107 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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108
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109 Preamble
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110
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111 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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112 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
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113 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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114 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
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115 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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116 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
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117 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
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118 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
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119 your programs, too.
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120
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121 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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122 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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123 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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124 this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
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125 if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
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126 in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
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127
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128 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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129 anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
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130 These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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131 distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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133 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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134 gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
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135 you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
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136 source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
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137 rights.
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139 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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