> Busybox being GPL licensed was in no way an accident or frivolous decision. It is still licensed under GPLv2 to this day. I realise that my comment is quite

> Busybox being GPL licensed was in no way an accident or frivolous decision. It is still licensed under GPLv2 to this day. I realise that my comment is quite ambiguous now. The author I referred to was the author of toybox, Rob Landley, and he was the maintainer of busybox in the early 00s. It was him I meant should pick licenses carefully, but honestly reading more about the situation, my take was too simplistic. It looks like there was a load of license drama as busybox was a mess of GPL2. GPL2+, GPL 3 and "Linux style" licenses - https://lwn.net/Articles/202106/ https://lwn.net/Articles/202106/ https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/ https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/ And that's about the time Rob resigned and went off to do toybox on his own. Having read that I'm honestly much more sympathetic, it seems like it was a real mess.