Because there's other desirable goals - such as getting free-to-distribute flash-able images for the N900, which is a goal that in itself depends on free-to-distribute components. And, also, because it's a pain in the *** for something that isn't really a good reason. I would rather go through the licence change request thing above and if that doesn't work, properly recode /sbin/preinit. Both are more future-minded for other possible projects/mods/packages than just making sure my code gets packaged (though that was the point - either every single project like mine has to make diff files, etc, etc, every version, OR we can just get one of the above results and then every project benefits from the extra convenience).

Oh, by the way, did the code end up working for you since your "something's not working" statement in your previous post?

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To be clear, I'm not saying it's not legal - it is - I'm just saying in my opinion re-license or re-code is better in the long-term.