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Can we remove all of the BSD subsystem and replace it with busybox please? Way less surface area for vulnerabilities and it’s more likely to be up-to-date if th
by joshenders 5y ago
Can we remove all of the BSD subsystem and replace it with busybox please? Way less surface area for vulnerabilities and it’s more likely to be up-to-date if there’s only one binary which needs updating.
- my123 5y agobusybox is not an option because of the GPLv3. http://landley.net/toybox/about.html http://landley.net/toybox/about.html might be one.
- swiley 5y agoMan what a drag, it's a real bummer a multi billion dollar cooperation can't just rip off open source projects.
- dagmx 5y agoThey do contribute quite a bit to OSS. GPL has a lot of other considerations when mixed with proprietary code however which makes it a very unpragmatic choice for commercial software companies who may be bound by multiple licenses.
- joshenders 5y agoAh, yep. You win. licensing is definitely the reason. Guess it’s time to re-implement busybox in Rust with a non-viral license!
- my123 5y ago(sorry, I misremembered. busybox is actually under the GPLv2)