Joshua Branson writes: > I believe that busybox has a more permissive license than coreutils?
Looking at the coreutils repository I can see that it is using GPL version 3 <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/COPYING>. When I run `guix search coreutils` the output says the license is "GPL 3+". Looking at an individual source code file I can see that it says "either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat.c>. BusyBox is licensed under the GPL version 2. <https://www.busybox.net/license.html>. "To summarize: every version of BusyBox may be distributed under the terms of GPL version 2. New versions (after 1.2.2), as a whole, may only be distributed under GPLv2, not under other versions of the GPL." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3> gives me the impression that GPL version 2 is more permissive than GPL version 3.
