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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 |
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Software Freedom Law Center and the fixes.patch thing.
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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index 698107b7b..8ccd9ffcc 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -2,8 +2,33 @@ <ul> + <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> + <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox + maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and + uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation + by Erik's father's law firm, and the + <a href=http://www.busybox.net/shame.html>Hall of Shame</a>), haven't + scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads + together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of + <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She + referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> + + <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the + <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> + has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other + free and open source software projects (such as + <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/>X.org</a>, + <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and + <a href=http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/>Plone</a> + in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a + phrase you get to use every day.</p> + <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p> + <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, + the various small fixes have been collected together into a + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, + and new fixes will be appended to that as needed.</p> </li> <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> <p>The new stable release is |