Toybox is a free and open-source software implementation of over 200 Unix command line utilities such as ls, cp, and mv.

[6] Toybox's major technical design goals are simplicity, smallness, speed and standard compliance.

[7] Toybox aims to be mostly POSIX-2008 and LSB 4.1 compatible, and doesn't focus on having every option found in GNU counterparts.

[13] At the beginning of 2012, Sony employee Tim Bird suggested creating a permissively licensed alternative to BusyBox.

[17] In January 2012 the proposal of creating a BSD license alternative to the GPL licensed BusyBox project drew harsh criticism from Matthew Garrett for taking away the only relevant tool for copyright enforcement of the Software Freedom Conservancy group.