Re: Pack busybox using guix, but make check have fail tests

[Joshua Branson]

Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes:

> Joshua Branson writes:
>> I believe that busybox has a more permissive license than coreutils?
>
> Looking at the coreutils repository I can see that it is using GPL
> version 3
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/COPYING>.  When I
> run `guix search coreutils` the output says the license is "GPL 3+".
> Looking at an individual source code file I can see that it says "either
> version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." 
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat.c>.
>
> BusyBox is licensed under the GPL version
> 2. <https://www.busybox.net/license.html>. "To summarize: every version
> of BusyBox may be distributed under the terms of GPL version 2. New
> versions (after 1.2.2), as a whole, may only be distributed under GPLv2,
> not under other versions of the GPL."
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3>
> gives me the impression that GPL version 2 is more permissive than GPL
> version 3.

Thanks for clarifying!

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