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Background story[0] about Rob Landley's split with Busybox:

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Why did I switch from busybox to toybox?

I left busybox due to an argument over GPLv3.

- https://lwn.net/Articles/202106/ (busy busy busybox)

Took all the fun out of it (reminded me of "SCO Disease") Did toybox as a hobby for a bit, no real expectation anybody use it. Even came back to busybox for a while, on and off, circa 2008-2011 sent toybox patch to busybox, fixed their vi, nbd-client...

- http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2008-October/0673...

- http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-September/07...

- https://landley.net/notes-2015.html#30-07-2015

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[0]: http://landley.net/talks/elc-2019.txt



I dug up one of his latest YouTube videos, which I think as a whole is good watch. Here is the licensing part:

- https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g?t=1525 (at 25:25)

Also I think it's worth to listen the first 10 minutes as an intro, and brief about licensing from 5 minutes forward. Where he explains how BusyBox's licensing was then used by other people as "beating tool" to get hardware specs.





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