1 <html><head><title>Toybox License</title> 2 <!--#include file="header.html" --> 3 4 <h2>Toybox is released under the Zero Clause BSD license (SPDX: <a href=https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html>0BSD</a>):</h2> 5 6 <blockquote> 7 <p>Copyright (C) 2006 by Rob Landley <rob (a] landley.net> 8 9 <p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any 10 purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p> 11 12 <p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 13 WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 14 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 15 ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 16 WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 17 ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 18 OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.</p> 19 </blockquote> 20 21 <p>The text of the above license is included in the file LICENSE in the source.</p> 22 23 <h2>Why 0BSD?</h2> 24 25 <p>Zero clause BSD is a <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_equivalent_license>public domain equivalent</a> license.</p> 26 27 <p>As with <a href=https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>CC0</a>, 28 <a href=http://unlicense.org>unlicense</a>, and <a href=http://wtfpl.net/>wtfpl</a>, 29 the intent is to effectively place the licensed material into the public domain, 30 which after decades of FUD (such as the time OSI's ex-lawyer compared 31 <a href=http://www.cod5.org/archive/>placing code into the public domain</a> to 32 <a href=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225>abandoning trash by the 33 side of a highway</a>) is considered somehow unsafe. But if some random third 34 party 35 <a href=https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/libtomcrypt/LICENSE>takes 36 public domain code</a> and slaps <a href=http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gnuzip/gnuzip-25/gzip/gzip.c>some other license on it</a>, then it's fine.</p> 37 38 <p>To work around this perception, the above license is a standard 2-clause BSD 39 license <a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/ee86b1d8e25cb0ca9d418b33eb0dc5e7716ddc1e>minus the half sentence</a> 40 requiring text copied verbatim into derived works. If 2BSD is 41 ok, the 0BSD should be ok, despite being equivalent to placing code in the 42 public domain.</p> 43 44 <p>Modifying the license in this way avoids the hole android toolbox fell into where 45 <a href=https://github.com/android/platform_system_core/blob/fd4c6b0a3a25921a9fe24691a695d715aecb6afe/toolbox/NOTICE>33 copies of BSD license text</a> 46 were concatenated together when copyright dates changed, or the strange 47 solution the busybox developers used to resolve tension between GPLv2's "no 48 additional restrictions" and BSD's "you must include this large hunk of text" 49 by sticking the two licenses at 50 <a href=http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/ping.c?id=887a1ad57fe978cd320be358effbe66df8a068bf>opposite ends of the file</a> and hoping nobody 51 noticed.</a> 52 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> 53
