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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by lucb1e on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:29AM (#28652265)
So it's busybox, rewritten or forked for some reason?

Edit: found it elsewhere in the thread. It's rewritten because they didn't like GPL for religious reasons. (Busybox is a completely separate binary from the rest of the system so there is no reason not to ship GPL-licensed software that I can see, but yeah if you've been bitten by making a closed source work derived from GPL once, I guess you don't want to try it again and Android has a lot of vendors with closed source components.)

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by senzilla on Saturday September 25, 2021 @11:53AM (#28654072)
Choosing fo rewrite software because of a license does not have to be "religious". There are very real reasons why license matters. Especially when it comes to GPLv3 and companies who hold patents.

This is one of the reasons why Google Android, and probably many others, are using Toybox for their userland. Because it's distributed under a BSD license.

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