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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by rwmj on Saturday September 25, 2021 @02:22AM (#28650950)
There are loads of BSD and MIT variants. But if this is a real objection why not settle on a specific version of the GPL, as Linux has done?

List of variants of BSD: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD?rd=Licensing/BS...

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by numpad0 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @02:35AM (#28650999)
Can you mix "v3 or later" code with v2 code? I think that's violation of copyright.
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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by rwmj on Saturday September 25, 2021 @02:53AM (#28651074)
Does the toybox project mix their code with GPLv3+ code?

The weird argument above was that there are apparently too many variations of the GPL (even though there are many, many more BSD and MIT variants). So I said, stick to a single GPL variant. And then you ask if you can mix GPL versions together.

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by afiori on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:27PM (#28654349)
the argument was that there are incompatible variations of the gpl, in most cases those variations of MIT licenses can be mixed in any way
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