SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> "NEW YORK, September 20, 2007 -- The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
> today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright
> infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public
> License (GPL) on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of
> BusyBox, against Monsoon Multimedia, Inc. BusyBox is a lightweight set
> of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems and is
> open source software licensed under GPL version 2."

I wonder what they specifically need in BusyBox that is not provided with 
the lightweight libraries and tools provided by DragonFly, OpenBSD, 
FreeBSD, or NetBSD?

As one example: NetBSD's useful crunchgen(1) can create a single 
executable containing multiple programs to help save storage space.