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Programmers behind Busybox, a collection of utilities governed by the General Public License (GPL), have settled a second lawsuit that argued a company violated the widely used free and open ...
BusyBox, which provides an interactive shell and a number of command-line tools in a single executable, has become popular in the embedded Linux market. Perens launched the BusyBox project in 1996 ...
BusyBox comes in two versions: “S” means Standard and “D” means Digital. The standard version costs $129, in which buyers have to manually change the slides.
Programmers behind the BusyBox collection of open-source utilities have settled a September lawsuit that contended Monsoon Multimedia's use of the software violated the General Public License (GPL ...
Backed by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), BusyBox's programmers settled a lawsuit against Xterasys, accused of violating licenses of the Unix/Linux utilities it offers.
BusyBox is a software utilities suite that its creators describe as the Swiss army knife of embedded Linux. It contains implementations of the most common Linux command-line tools, together with a ...
BusyBox’s developers license the software under the GPL “to ensure that all users of the program can access and modify its source code,” said Dan Ravicher, the SFLC’s legal director.
Breakdown of Flaws The vulnerabilities are being tracked with CVE IDs from CVE-2021-42373 through CVE-2021-42386, and affect different versions of BusyBox ranging from 1.16-1.33.1, depending on ...
The person behind a set of GPL-licensed Unix utilities called BusyBox has been engaged in a lawsuit against a dozen consumer electronics companies, accusing them of violating his copyright. The ...
Busybox is a part of almost every commercial embedded Linux offerings, and is found in such diverse projects as the Kerbango Internet Radio and the IBM Wristwatch that runs Linux. The name Busybox ...