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snvzz • today at 2:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Busybox is... a toybox[0] with a more restrictive license.

0. https://github.com/landley/toybox

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maxloh • today at 3:09 PM

The correct phrasing would be "Toybox is... a BusyBox with a more permissive license." BusyBox started first.

  Toybox was started in early 2006 by Rob Landley after he ended his BusyBox maintainership due to a dispute with Bruce Perens, the original creator of BusyBox.[1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toybox