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Toybox is a clone of Busybox with a less restrictive license. Toybox is used on Android to implement a number of POSIX.2 utilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by chasil 1y ago
Toybox is a clone of Busybox with a less restrictive license.
Toybox is used on Android to implement a number of POSIX.2 utilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#Controversy_over_Toybox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#Controversy_over_Toybo...
- MuffinFlavored 1y agoIs it fair to say GNU coreutils "inspired" the need for Busybox?
- chasil 1y agoI'm actually surprised that there wasn't a fork of the last GPLv2 release. The benefit of starting over is that Landley was able to relicense Toybox as BSD, after he first released it as GPLv2. That would not have been possible with a fork. If this were commercial software, he would have been forced to "cleanroom" the new code.