> It's just that this GPL thing doesn't even register on their legal radar... Any engineer competent enough to incorporate Busybox into another product would k

> It's just that this GPL thing doesn't even register on their legal radar... Any engineer competent enough to incorporate Busybox into another product would know what GPL is, and what are the most basic implications that it leads to. I find it much easier to believe that VMWare as a whole was explicitly aware of the licensing situation. It remains to be seen what was their plan B, if there ever was one.