Simplify copyright/license notice that appears in the binary.

Existing copyright notice for binary would need to be longer to achieve
optimal accuracy.  This compromise punts to the source for full notices,
but does note the years of the copyrights and that there are many authors,
all licensing under GPLv2.

Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Sebro <tony@sfconservancy.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

diff --git a/libbb/appletlib.c b/libbb/appletlib.c
index 09e886d7a9096f31d8936f4545414d5ccd4b44b7..da13bf36c9f02bfbd55eaa31daae60f0ded9d93f 100644 (file)
--- a/libbb/appletlib.c
+++ b/libbb/appletlib.c
@@ -627,9 +627,9 @@ static int busybox_main(char **argv)
                full_write2_str(bb_banner); /* reuse const string */
                full_write2_str(" multi-call binary.\n"); /* reuse */
                full_write2_str(
-                       "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n"
-                       "and others. Licensed under GPLv2.\n"
-                       "See source distribution for full notice.\n"
+                       "BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2012.\n"
+                       "Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed\n"
+                       "copyright notices.\n"
                        "\n"
                        "Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]\n"
                        "   or: busybox --list"IF_FEATURE_INSTALLER("[-full]")"\n"