License concerns when embedding script in busybox binary

[Ron Yorston]

Michael Conrad wrote:
>Anyone with gdb would be able to extract the table and then
>decompress it back to the original directory of scripts.

Or a script like this:

  #
  # Extract bzip2 encoded data embedded in the busybox binary.
  # 
  # Such data is compressed with 'bzip -1' so the first few bytes
  # should be 'BZh11AY&SY' but the leading 'BZ' is omitted.
  #
  # Don't bother detecting the end of the embedded data:  let the
  # decoding program do that.
  #
  # Requires GNU grep.
  #
  # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4180081/binary-grep-on-linux
  #

  for i in $(grep -obUaP "h11AY&SY" busybox | cut -d: -f1)
  do
	  (printf "BZ"; dd bs=1 skip=$i if=busybox) >bb_$i.bz2
  done

Doing it with tools available in BusyBox is left as an exercise for
the reader...

Ron