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FAQ tweak: one more link on toybox history.

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@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ start of sentences is awkward, so... compromise. (It is _not_ "ToyBox".)</p>
<a name="why_toybox" />
<h2>Q: "Why is there toybox? What was wrong with busybox?"</h2>
<p>A: To answer the first part: Toybox dates back to when its maintainer
<p>A: The current incarnation of toybox dates back to a
<a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011>project relaunch</a>
in November 2011. That link explains the reasoning at the time, with
links to earlier information.</p>
<p>Toybox first started back when its maintainer
<a href=https://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>handed off BusyBox maintainership</a>
and <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2006.html#28-09-2006>started over from
scratch</a> on a new codebase after a
@ -34,7 +39,7 @@ out a strategy to make Android self-hosting, which helped
it to Android's attention</a>, and they
<a href=https://lwn.net/Articles/629362/>merged it</a> into Android M.</p>
<p>To answer the second part: BusyBox predates Android
<p>To answer the second question: BusyBox predates Android
by almost a decade, but Android still doesn't ship with it because GPLv3 came
out around the same time Android did and caused many people to throw
out the GPLv2 baby with the GPLv3 bathwater.