Within BusyBox you can find a full-fledged shell, a DHCP client/server, and small utilities such as cp, ls, grep, and others. You’re also likely to find many OT and IoT devices running BusyBox ...

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Xterasys has become the second company to settle its GPL infringement lawsuit with programmers of the Busybox collection of utilities.

Bruce Perens, the original creator of BusyBox, posted a statement in his blog on Tuesday to complain about the GPL enforcement lawsuit that was recently initiated by the Software Freedom Law ...

Security researchers have found and reported 14 vulnerabilities in the BusyBox userspace tool that’s used in millions of embedded devices running Linux-based firmware. While the flaws don’t ...

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.

Researchers discovered 14 vulnerabilities in the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of the embedded OS used in many OT and IoT environments. They allow RCE, denial of service and data leaks.

Maker of Linux-based digital TV devices agrees to abide by GPL requirements for publishing source code--and is paying the BusyBox programmers.

The Software Freedom Law Center filed its fourth copyright-infringement lawsuit on behalf of the developers of the BusyBox open-source technology, this one targeting Verizon.

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 ...