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		MuffinFlavored 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line Is it fair to say GNU coreutils "inspired" the need for Busybox?

chasil 27 days ago [–]

I'm actually surprised that there wasn't a fork of the last GPLv2 release.

The benefit of starting over is that Landley was able to relicense Toybox as BSD, after he first released it as GPLv2. That would not have been possible with a fork.

If this were commercial software, he would have been forced to "cleanroom" the new code.

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