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diff --git a/www/about.html b/www/about.html index 7d98de4b..95aae25f 100755 --- a/www/about.html +++ b/www/about.html @@ -5,23 +5,21 @@ <h2><a name="what" />What is ToyBox?</h2> -<p>The goal of the Toybox project is to create simple, small, fast, and -correct implementations of all the standard Linux command line utilities. -There's a <a href="design.html">page on design goals</a>.</p> - -<p>Toybox offers configurable levels of functionality, and should scale from -tiny embedded systems up to general purpose development environments. -The author plans to install it on his Android phone in place of Toolbox, -and the <a href=/aboriginal>Aboriginal Linux</a> project is working to get a -complete Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using toybox.</p> - -<p>Toybox is <a href=license.html>released under a simple 2-clause BSD-style -license</a>. (Earlier versions were released under GPLv2, but -<a href=oldlicense.html>that changed</a>.)</p> - -<p>Toybox can be built as a single "swiss army knife" executable (ala BusyBox -or Red Hat's Nash), or each command can be built as a traditional independent -executable.</p> +<p>Toybox provides simple, small, fast, and correct implementations of all the +standard Linux command line utilities.</p> + +<p>Toybox should scale from tiny embedded systems up to general purpose +development environments. We test using it on Android phones in place of +Toolbox, and the <a href=/aboriginal>Aboriginal Linux</a> project is working +to get a complete Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using +toybox.</p> + +<p>Toybox is released under what's been nicknamed a <a href=license.html>"zero +clause BSD" license</a>, essentially public domain with a liability +disclaimer.</p> + +<p>Toybox can be built as a single multicall ("swiss army knife") executable, +or each command can be built as a traditional independent executable.</p> <b><h2><a name="status" />What commands are implemented in Toybox?</h2></b> |