Re: Notice of MIT License violation by Roberto Foglietta
Kang-Che Sung via busybox <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:54:46 +0800
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 5:49 AM Jody Bruchon via busybox <[email protected]> wrote: > > This email is official notice of violation of the terms of the MIT License. The following change removes legally mandatory copyright notices and the code in violation is being publicly distributed: > > https://github.com/robang74/busybox/commit/97e3b97e616e72ca4224dcbdaffd41474bea5ca8 > I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's good to inform you that the MIT license does not require attribution in generated binaries. You can read the license text carefully and confirm that yourself. It's not to be confused with the 3-clause BSD license. Roberto only removed the copyright notice in the program output, while keeping the copyright notice and the MIT license text *in the source* intact. AFAIK, it's legal (even though it's a bad idea in ethics). _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] https://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox