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Why is always busybox?

Why is always busybox?

Posted Dec 15, 2009 17:59 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: Why is always busybox? by drag
Parent article: Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today

the other thing is that the GPL is explicity *not* a use license. So long as the end user is the one doing it, they cannot argue that binary-only drivers are not legal. The interface between the binary and the GPL-ed software is the crucial bit, as it must be distributed to the end-users.


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