Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it for the toybox intro and for Landley's candid account of software licensing and why he created the 0BSD license.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Linux Foundation

Topic

toybox and busybox

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• BSD-0 is a public-domain-equivalent license. The guy who published it is one of the few people who has actually been involved in a lawsuit to try to assert a copyleft license. The whole thing was such a bad experience for him that he decided copyleft …

• > Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. -- [LINK] Possibly also interesting: Toyboy vs. Busybox [VIDEO]

• I dug up one of his latest YouTube videos, which I think as a whole is good watch. Here is the licensing part: - [VIDEO] (at 25:25) Also I think it's worth to listen the first 10 minutes as an intro, and brief about licensing …