> Busybox being GPL licensed was in no way an accident or frivolous decision. It is still licensed under GPLv2 to this day.
I realise that my comment is quite ambiguous now. The author I referred to was the author of toybox, Rob Landley, and he was the maintainer of busybox in the early 00s. It was him I meant should pick licenses carefully, but honestly reading more about the situation, my take was too simplistic.
And that's about the time Rob resigned and went off to do toybox on his own. Having read that I'm honestly much more sympathetic, it seems like it was a real mess.
I realise that my comment is quite ambiguous now. The author I referred to was the author of toybox, Rob Landley, and he was the maintainer of busybox in the early 00s. It was him I meant should pick licenses carefully, but honestly reading more about the situation, my take was too simplistic.
It looks like there was a load of license drama as busybox was a mess of GPL2. GPL2+, GPL 3 and "Linux style" licenses - https://lwn.net/Articles/202106/ https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/
And that's about the time Rob resigned and went off to do toybox on his own. Having read that I'm honestly much more sympathetic, it seems like it was a real mess.