kill a file with ambiguous distribution terms

[Alexander Shishkin]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 07:53:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:53:55 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 06 July 2010 13:48, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > archival/unzip_doc.txt.bz2 looks like a strange thing to have in a source
> >> > tree and it seems that the distribution terms for it are unclear. Perhaps
> >> > it might as well be removed?
> >>
> >> Why bother? It's useful whenever I hack on unzip.
> >
> > Is it really more useful than googling the same bit? I wouldn't say that,
> > for example, having OMAP referentce manual in the linux kernel source tree
> > would be any more helpful when I hack on omap kernel than having it stored
> > separately.
> >
> > Our lawyers tell me that in order to distribute busybox in the context of
> > maemo I have to remove this file due to its questionable distribution terms.
> 
> Lawyers. Don't we all love them?

As long as they are on our side. :)

> > I thought then this will be useful for the mainline busybox as well since
> > noone wants questionable things in their source distributions. Just my 2
> > cents.
> 
> Removed from git.

Thanks.

Regards,
--
Alex