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ABS: The guts of Android

Posted Apr 28, 2011 7:00 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
Parent article: ABS: The guts of Android

is the toolbox that android ships the busybox replacement that Rob Landley is developing?

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Posted Apr 29, 2011 20:34 UTC (Fri) by vapier (subscriber, #15768) [Link]

his is called "toybox" iirc, and using that over busybox wouldnt provide any advantage in the area concerned. it's still GPL-2 for example.

ABS: The guts of Android

Posted Apr 25, 2012 17:47 UTC (Wed) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901) [Link]

As of March 2012 or so, it's been moved over to a BSD license, specifically to allow use on Android without increasing the amount of GPL in user-space.