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+<h2>Toybox is licensed under the terms of GPLv2.</h2>
+
+<p>The complete text of the General Public License version 2 is included in the
+file LICENSE in each source tarball.  Version 2 is the only version of
+this license which toybox is distributed under.  (I.E. It doesn't have the
+strange "or later" dual license some projects have.)</p>
+
+<h2>Clarifications</h2>
+
+<p>The GPL is a bit old and crufty in places, but it's still the best open
+source license there is, and lots of source code (like the Linux kernel) is
+distributed under it.  Lots of de facto interpretations have sprung up to deal
+with things like the fact that it predates the internet service provider
+industry.  Nothing in the rest of this page changes the actual license, so you
+can ignore the rest of this page if you're happy with a strict reading of
+GPLv2.  But just to be clear, here's how the authors of this project are
+interpreting the sucker where it says something stupid.</p>
+
+<p>Section 1: <b>You have permission to rephrase the license notice on
+individual source files.</b>  This doesn't mean you can change what license the
+code is under, or that you can remove other people's copyright notices.  You
+certainly can't change the test of the GPL itself.  What it means is that if
+you use this code in a project that distributes source in zip files instead of
+tarballs, or your package's copy of the GPLv2 text isn't in a file called
+"LICENSE", it's silly to preserve an obsolete notice verbatim and add some
+kind of "correction" after the old notice.</p>
+
+<p>Some lawyers seem to think a strict reading of GPLv2 section 1 (and later
+sections including section 1 by reference) requires maintaining old notices in
+perpetuity.  Even if you had code that used to be dual licensed, but created
+a derived work that's just under one of the two licenses, so the old license
+notice is not just strange or misleading but actually incorrect for the new
+file.  (For example, splicing GPLv2 only code into a dual "GPLv2 or later"
+project produces a result that can be distributed under the terms of GPLv2,
+but not GPLv3.  The result cannot be distributed under the "or later" part,
+so a license notice saying it could is factually wrong.)</p>
+
+<p>I don't know if we're ever going to put any dual licensed code into the tree,
+but I want to head that one off now.  The actual license text is the important
+thing, the per-file notice is a courtesy.</p>
+
+<p>Section 2: <b>We don't put the change history in comments in the source
+code, we put it in our source control system.</b>  We have source control for a
+reason.  That's where this information belongs, and that's where we put it.
+It's world readable on the web, and you can download a snapshot of the whole
+repository if you like.  The GPL predates modern source control systems, but
+this project does not.</p>
+
+<p>Section 3: <b>We distribute source code through the internet.</b>  If
+your "written offer" includes a URL, and the source code remains anonymously
+downloadable at that location for three years after you stop distributing
+binaries, life is good as far as we're concerned.  (No, you can't encrypt it,
+or require a login, or otherwise be slimy bastards acting in bad faith.  We'll
+come after you if you're not satisfying the terms of the license, this is just
+talking about how you can satisfy those terms without having to mail physical
+media.  Most people are already doing it this way.)</p>
+
+<p>Also, <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150">what the FSF did to Mepis</a> was inexcusable.  (Further discussed
+in <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-June/022797.html">this
+thread</a>.)  Mepis partnered with Ubuntu, put out a press release quoting
+Ubuntu's founder about how cool the partnership was, and then pointed to
+Ubuntu's source repository for packages it was using unmodified Ubuntu versions
+of.  As far as we're concerned, Mepis didn't do anything wrong, and the FSF
+was a bully.  The FSF was wrong when it tried to make an example out of a
+company that was acting in good faith.</p>
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+<p>To make sure the FSF doesn't pick on anyone else against our wishes, we're
+clarifying that if you didn't modify the source code, and the binaries you're
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+<p>This doesn't mean it's fair for a Fortune 500 company to point millions of
+people at somebody's home DSL line (certainly not without asking first).
+And if the source that's available there isn't the complete source you used
+to produce your binaries, you haven't fulfilled your obligations either.
+And if the code stops being available at that location, you're not off the
+hook and have to find a new location or put up your own mirror.  And obviously
+it has to be the _right_ source code (if you modified it, we want the patch,
+and claiming you didn't modify it when you actually did is fraud).</p>
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+<p>This is not a "get out of jail free" card: It's still your responsibility to
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+responsibility obviously reverts to you.</p>
+
+<p>But if this project needs mirrors, we'll _ask_.  (Most likely we'll ask
+someone like sourceforge, OSL, ISC, ibiblio, archive.org...)</p>
+
+<p>Section 9: <b>Does not apply to this project.</b>  We're specifying the
+version, it's version 2.  There is no "or later versions" clause to require
+interpreting.
+
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