Is it possible/impossible to develop proprietary software to run on linux?

Armijn Hemel armijn at uulug.nl
Wed Aug 5 10:00:45 CEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 02:08 +0200, paolo del bene wrote:
> I am sorry for you but time ago, busybox was violated, and you can
> imangine
> which is its own license: http://www.busybox.net/license.html

No shit...

> BusyBox is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version
> 2about
> µClinux i can tell you that is GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, but
> they
> have not say which version, i suppose is the version 2 as i found on
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/library.txt  but i think that
> is
> better to ask to Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org>
> 
> Please invite Erik Andersen to clarify which GNU Library General
> Public
> License they actually are using.

But it is not part of the GNU *project*, which was my entire point. Now,
this has nothing to do with licensing, just with religion and
boneheadedness, so let's stop the discussion, ok?

armijn

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