About the calculus for the project

> BSD-relicensed (that's important) toybox looks very much like
> Napster-style copyright infringement facilitator.

"It's not impossible, I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters."

I wrote the toybox code, I own the copyright on the code, I issued a second license to my copyrighted code. (A license is a permission statement. The older versions were released under GPLv2 and that was the only set of conditions you had permission to use it under. I have since granted additional permission to use my copyrighted code under less restrictive terms. Legally, the two are unrelated.)

As the guy who _started_ the Busybox licence enforcement suits, as someone who spent a couple years paid by IBM's lawyers as a domain expert to help defend them against legal claims, as someone who had an email exchange with Richard Stallmand in the 90's about nuances of the GPL for a "copyright and licensing HOWTO" that eventually turned into a week-long series of articles on the five types of intellectual property for The Motley Fool:

http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker00...
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker00...
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker00...
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker00...
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker00...

As somebody who has studied intellectual property law as a hobby since the 1990's, as someone who has spoken on panels discussing the GPL when the other panelists were professional practicing lawyers, as someone who was once flown to new York to speak on a panel with Eben Moglen (the lawyer co-author of the GPL) about GPL enforcement.

As all that and more, I tell you:

No, it's not "important". You have absolutely no _clue_ what you're talking about, and I don't appreciate the transparent FUD.