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(Unverified)Oct 7th 2007 9:36AM
I find your word choices wrong and misleading. Busybox is not an "open source" software (unless you (somewhat wrongly) consider "open source" software as a superset of free software), it is a FREE SOFTWARE. If it were merely open source, it would have been licensed under BSD license (or something similar) and Monsoon would have been allowed to make a propriety derived work from it.
However, Busybox is licensed under GNU GPL, and that's what makes what Monsoon did wrong (legally and morally)---they are restricting your FREEDOM when they make a proprietary derived-work from Busybox, and GNU GPL is specifically designed to ensure that free software remains a free software (it has very little to do with "open source" and "closed source", although admittedly there are some unintended overlaps).