Re: From the Sony engineer mentioned...

Date: 2012-01-31 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mjg59
What legal uncertainty? If you violate the license of any GPL component then you're leaving yourself open to a lawsuit. Replacing Busybox with something under a more liberal license only helps you if the only infringing component is Busybox, and I'm not aware of any cases where that's been the case.
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