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Can we remove all of the BSD subsystem and replace it with busybox please? Way less surface area for vulnerabilities and it’s more likely to be up-to-date if there’s only one binary which needs updating.


busybox is not an option because of the GPLv3. http://landley.net/toybox/about.html might be one.


Man what a drag, it's a real bummer a multi billion dollar cooperation can't just rip off open source projects.


They do contribute quite a bit to OSS.

GPL has a lot of other considerations when mixed with proprietary code however which makes it a very unpragmatic choice for commercial software companies who may be bound by multiple licenses.


(sorry, I misremembered. busybox is actually under the GPLv2)


Ah, yep. You win. licensing is definitely the reason.

Guess it’s time to re-implement busybox in Rust with a non-viral license!




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