Copyright message for 1.20.2?

[Ralf Friedl]

ralda at gmx.de wrote:
> IMO it may be a personal decision on many different aspects if we
> include a lengthy copyright notice within the binary or not. We can
> have a configuration option to select between a full list of all
> copyright holders (automatically generated from special "/* Copyright:"
> header lines in the source, or a short copyright notice (as noted
> above).
Who would want this whole list in the binary, or in other words, who 
would choose that option?
> In addition the copyright text shall be included in the binary
> as compressed text (gzip, lzma, etc.).
I think it is more useful to have a short text that you can find with 
strings than a long text that must be run through the program on the 
target platform or found by a special extractor.

> In addition Busybox build process shall create an extra text file with
> full (and may be extended) copyright message. This file shall be
> installed under /usr/share/doc/busybox-VERSION/Copyright, and all
> system maintainers shall be forced to put this file on the final
> binary system, except if size constrains forbid this (e.g. initramfs).
> In such cases the system maintainer shall be forced to publish the
> full copyright message on a different way (e.g. web site or system
> documentation).
>   
As others have noted, this is incompatible with the GPL.

Ralf