Amusing article about busybox

Rogelio Serrano rogelio.serrano at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 06:41:05 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

>> Perhaps it's time to write a special clause that says that the scope
>> of busybox enforcement should be restricted to busybox (not used as a
>> proxy).
>
> Why? I would hope many developers would be against such a policy. The
> most useful part of Busybox enforcement is as a proxy. Nobody actually
> cares about the modifications to Busybox (if any); they care about the
> kernel patches and other stuff that's essential to using the hardware
> Busybox is distributed on.
>
> Rich
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we might as well just rewrite linux under a more permissive license...

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